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Dnia 2015-09-30, o godz. 16:01:16 |
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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> the Gentoo Council will meet again on Sunday, October 11 at 19:00 UTC in |
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> #gentoo-council on freenode. |
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> Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to discuss |
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> or vote on. |
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The second issue that may need Council's attention is developers' |
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attitude towards pull request source via GitHub. |
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One and a half month since enabling it, we already had almost 150 pull |
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requests from Gentoo users (and a few Gentoo developers who use this as |
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a collaboration tool). Sadly, some developers not only refuse to use |
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GitHub (which is an acceptable choice) but also have very negative |
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attitude towards users submitting pull requests and the developers |
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helping with them. |
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The point is, if we want users to submit pull requests, we should be |
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handling them. Then we can't really agree on some developer refusing to |
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look at the request, and requesting the user to re-send it some other, |
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less convenient way. Or another developer just silently ignoring every |
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request and rudely responding to pings. |
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Since the amount of work necessary to proxy between users |
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and developers who refuse to use GitHub is huge, I have prepared |
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a script that opens Bugzilla bugs for GitHub pull requests |
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and bidirectionally copies comments between them, therefore allowing |
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Gentoo developers to handle pull requests via Bugzilla at their |
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convenience. However, it is currently waiting for review and approval |
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by Robin before it will get deployed. |
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But even then, I need to make sure the developers will actually use it |
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politely. Developers can't really close those bugs 'because it's |
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GitHub', or 'attach a patch', or 'duplicate of #nnnnnn' (because |
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it's a synced bug, it can't be magically coerced into existing bug). |
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In fact, I mailed bug-wranglers about this already but I got no reply. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |