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From: Ultrabug <ultrabug@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:46:36
Message-Id: 55CA0AB5.6000803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Mirroring Gentoo project/team members on GitHub by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 11/08/2015 16:32, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > Hello, everyone.
6 >
7 > Now that we're officially on git and can officially use pull
8 > requests to provide rapid community interaction, it'd be convenient
9 > to have a little better framework for pinging package maintainers.
10 >
11 > With the unofficial mirror/pull request project, I was either
12 > looking for project member GitHub accounts and pinging found
13 > project members by name, or talking to them directly on IRC.
14 > However, with the growth in number of pull requests this will
15 > become more and more inconvenient. Therefore, I think it's time to
16 > be able to mirror teams willing to work with GitHub community there
17 > for easier 'pings'.
18 >
19
20 I like the idea, sounds very handy
21
22 > I have two ideas right now:
23 >
24 > 1. creating GitHub Gentoo project teams corresponding to willing
25 > Gentoo teams,
26 >
27 > 2. preparing lists of GitHub usernames on project wiki pages.
28 >
29 > Solution 1. is cleaner. In this case, we create GitHub teams under
30 > the Gentoo projects, and add appropriate Gentoo developers having
31 > GitHub accounts to the teams. Then, in PRs we can just ping the
32 > whole team like @Gentoo/Qt or like.
33 >
34
35 +1 imho, clean & simple, only team and ppl willing to participate can
36 get there
37
38 > Solution 2. avoids adding any GitHub teams. In this case, in team
39 > wiki page we collect team member usernames like "@Pesa,
40 > @kensington, ..." so we could copy-paste it to pull requests. We
41 > still require extra effort when 'assigning' PRs but at least I
42 > don't have to lookup the same people over and over again.
43 >
44 > With some Wiki people help, we could even implement updating
45 > GitHub teams automatically following Wiki member changes.
46 >
47 > Your thoughts?
48 >
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