[Sugar-devel] github (was Re: Fwd: Proposal on how to speed up patch reviews)

[Simon Schampijer]

On 03/27/2013 09:03 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> On 27 March 2013 16:23, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>> I know all this can be replaced by a fork & pull workflow, and I'm
>> used to do that in github.  But gitorius interface is not as good as
>> github, in my opinion.  By the way, if we have consensus for a fork &
>> pull workflow, I have no problem switching.
>
> There was actually some discussion in irc today about using github.
> Reposting here for people that are not following irc.
>
> It might not be a bad idea to give a try to a github based workflow
> with 0.100. (git is flexible enough that giving it a try should not
> have a big cost, you can easily go back to gitorious at any time).
>
> 17:26 < cjb> honestly just moving to github is probably not a bad idea IMO
> 17:26 < dnarvaez> I like the bug tracking stuff in github
> 17:26 < cjb> you'd get pull requests you can track, link between issues and
>               commits, it's a more standard and approachable place for
>               collaboration to happen, and they have export functions for
>               getting your data back out
> 17:27 < dnarvaez> for review I wonder if pull requests would work
> 17:27 < cjb> sure, it's what everyone else does
> 17:28 < dnarvaez> I suppose the infra team would be glad to have few services
>                    less to support :)
> 17:30 < cjb> it made sense to run our own git when github was new and we were
>               opposed to everyone standardizing on a centralized (and non-free
>               software) web location for git repositories
> 17:30 < cjb> but github is huge now, and we're just losing contributors by
>               refusing to take part, IMO
> 17:30 < dnarvaez> yeah pretty much everyone is one github these days
>

I read a bit about the differences. For a purist the 'is not using free 
software on their server' springs to mind. But maybe let's focus on the 
work flow first.

The merge requests on gitorious I never used. Maybe because I was too 
focused on the bug tracker or patch on email work flow. It does make 
sense to have a pull workflow for bigger changes that are linked to each 
other, for example a port-shell-to-gtk3 project.

I should check if I can get used to that as a general work flow model. 
Maybe I check with the ayopa project to get a feeling for it.

In general, I am not opposed to useing github as we do not change the 
underlying management system, and that stays the main part.

Regards,
    Simon