Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2013/8/15 Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
> > We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more
> > open source code and tools than the gitorious community. We accept
> > money from Google for the GSoC's every year and I see no complaints.
> > Everything is a matter on how you look at things really.
>
> I agree that everyone should be free to pick their fights. I agree
> that you you are free to pick yours and have them different from mine.
> Do you agree that mine can be different from yours?

Absolutely.

> I really don't care much about my code being mirrored anywhere. At
> least gitorious would be ethically acceptable, so it wouldn't bother
> me, but I won't invest time in this. I see the value of this as a
> backup though, so if others want to work on this I say that's a good
> thing.
>
> Anyway this is really not what was the most important point to me in
> my previous email and you didn't answer the question I really cared
> about, so I'm asking again: is there a way for maintainers to opt out
> of the github mirroring?

At the moment, no there isn't. Patches to the hook and help to make
this happen are welcome.

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Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz