Eating our own dog food

[Dominik Ruf]

Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> schrieb am Di., 18. Juli 2017 um
01:10 Uhr:

> On 07/14/2017 08:22 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> > However, we need to be careful about disk space too. I guess the
> > multitude of Kallithea repositories is not such a big problem, but if
> > users can create other repositories we need to be more careful. I
> > don't think it is the intention that OOK becomes a public repository
> > host. Perhaps we can restrict each user to have one repository
> > 'kallithea' and nothing else.
> >
> > With one kallithea-incoming, this problem does not exist.
> > Mads, Andrew, what is your view?
>
> Hosting of code from open source contributors requires some continous
> amount of work and resources. Both for establishing trust and for
> cleaning up when rogue players abuse the system anyway.

How is that different on bitbucket.org?
What kind of abuse do you suspect?

> But it can be
> done, assuming we want to do it and establish a realistic process and
> tooling.
>
> Also, Kallithea is mainly used internally inside organisations. It has
> not been optimized for hosting open source projects with "random"
> contributors. I think some of the short-comings are quite obvious

Not to me.

> - we
> don't need dogfooding to find these.

It is not only about finding issues. It also send a message to potential
users.
Would you eat at McDonalds, if their employees eat at Burger King?

> A commitment to making dogfooding
> work smoothly would force us to change priorities and would postpone
> other work. We or someone could do that.
>
> Increased use of https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/ would mainly influence
> the areas Andrew currently is taking care of, so I think it mainly is up
> to him how we should do it.
>
 Agreed.

>
> /Mads
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