On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 13:07 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
A publicly accessible VCS is necessary in order to collaborate on any open source project.
I think what Alex and Heinz would like is to be able to do is somehow be able to separate their code from community contributions. Perhaps they think that they would be able to market just their 'devs' code in some way. But with the x2go foundation being already built upon GPL NX libraries I can tell you that this is not possible. ALL x2go code to date is fully GPL and always will be. There is absolutely no advantage to separate code or two VCS's or anything like this.
What is needed is for the project to put up it's existing GIT repository and allow the community to make contributions in some branches which can then be examined and tested and merged or rebased into the HEAD. This way contributors can work on various pieces and when they have something good they can propose it for merging and invite other community members to test their work.
In all this the 'devs', Alex and Heinz, act as the 'editors' and evaluate the pieces with regards to the overall direction of the project and its architecture. There is no advantage to waiting on any of this and putting up the repository should take just a matter of minutes and I think Alex and Heinz should not be afraid to share the source repository. They retain the merge rights and so still have control.
And then they can add others with merge rights as the project moves forward. <snip> Please, all. I think we've gotten our answers and we are just chewing up a lot of time and burning up good will. It seems to me:
- There will be GIT from the devs after Baikal and not before.
- We are free to set up a best effort GIT ourselves before then.
Those are the answers. If we like them, let's run with them and get back to work. If we don't like them, and we've said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and said we don't like them, and those who hold the keys and contributed the original code are not agreeing and not breaking the law, then please stop saying you don't like them.
Can we stop now and get on with #1 and #2? Thanks - John