Re: [gentoo-project] Status update of Sunrise project?

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-04-12, o godz. 07:22:17
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:59 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
> > On 04/11/2015 01:54 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> >>
> >> 1.  What does proxy-maintainers lack in comparison to sunrise
> >> exclusively.  The immediate question is whether sunrise should be
> >> migrated to proxy-maintainers, so this specific comparison is
> >> important.
> >>
> >
> > proxy-maintainers lack:
> > 1. a repository with a usable VCS
>
> proxy-maintainers is using git.  Am I missing something?
>
> > 2. an actual review workflow... @proxy-maintainers are just some sort of
> > backup committers. it's not a hub for contributors to gather, discuss,
> > get reviews and improve skills
>
> My understanding is that github pull-requests are being used.  I'll
> buy that the project is still fairly immature but it seems like they
> have a decent foundation for a review-oriented workflow.  Perhaps you
> might consider getting involved and building improvements?
>
> > 3. means to ensure the tree doesn't break
>
> Well, we don't even do this well in the main repository.
> proxy-maintainers can use repoman, as can committers, but I'll buy
> that those aren't the best solution.  There are already efforts to get
> travis-ci working on the main tree, and presumably this could be
> applied to proxy-maintainers as well.

Some of the proxy-maintainers have already switched to our git Gentoo
repo mirror. There, the pull requests are automatically checked using
repository-wide pcheck runs thanks to travis. This is actually better
than what most of Gentoo developers do, even though I asked them
multiple times to use the mirror when in doubt.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny