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From: Maxim Koltsov <maksbotan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:53:19
Message-Id: CAB_KkxyYj5XMQnOu=dfMy3YMFrOY2xwP7ncrvpvy=xUn6xJRhQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub by "Michał Górny"
1 11 авг. 2015 г. 17:33 пользователь "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
2 написал:
3 >
4 > Hello, everyone.
5 >
6 > Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull requests
7 > to provide rapid community interaction, it'd be convenient to have
8 > a little better framework for pinging package maintainers.
9 >
10 > With the unofficial mirror/pull request project, I was either looking
11 > for project member GitHub accounts and pinging found project members by
12 > name, or talking to them directly on IRC. However, with the growth in
13 > number of pull requests this will become more and more inconvenient.
14 > Therefore, I think it's time to be able to mirror teams willing to work
15 > with GitHub community there for easier 'pings'.
16 >
17 > I have two ideas right now:
18 >
19 > 1. creating GitHub Gentoo project teams corresponding to willing Gentoo
20 > teams,
21 >
22 > 2. preparing lists of GitHub usernames on project wiki pages.
23 >
24 > Solution 1. is cleaner. In this case, we create GitHub teams under
25 > the Gentoo projects, and add appropriate Gentoo developers having
26 > GitHub accounts to the teams. Then, in PRs we can just ping the whole
27 > team like @Gentoo/Qt or like.
28 >
29 > Solution 2. avoids adding any GitHub teams. In this case, in team wiki
30 > page we collect team member usernames like "@Pesa, @kensington, ..." so
31 > we could copy-paste it to pull requests. We still require extra effort
32 > when 'assigning' PRs but at least I don't have to lookup the same
33 > people over and over again.
34 >
35 > With some Wiki people help, we could even implement updating GitHub
36 > teams automatically following Wiki member changes.
37 >
38 > Your thoughts?
39
40 Hi Michał!
41 Mirroring teams on GH is a great idea. I have a question though.
42 Is it OK that highlight links from GH emails and GH pages (like
43 '@gentoo/qt', etc) lead to GitHub's 404 page?
44
45 > --
46 > Best regards,
47 > Michał Górny
48 > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>