Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Posting patches on this mailing list instead of using GitHub

[Joonas Niilola]

On 6/8/20 11:42 AM, Robert Günzler wrote:
> I honestly think it doesn't matter so much _why_ people prefer something else
> over GH. How much are you considering to switch to yet another
> solution after all...
> And I bet even that wouldn't make everybody happy :P

I wouldn't mind switching to Gentoo-hosted alternative, that does the
same. But I imagine it'd require too much work, and why replicate
something that already exists and works well.


>
> I'm fairly new to Gentoo, so I'm actually confused that https://packages.gentoo.org
> always links to https://cgit.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git - I thought that
> is the "source-of-truth" place then... but patches are going into the GH
> repo. Who is actually sycing all that back to cgit then?
>
As chiitoo said, Github is just used to mirror the tree and enable
creating pull requests. Github also allows easy-to-follow review
process, and CI checks before the patch is merged. Basically you take
https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/gentoo/gentoo/pull/16110.patch
and apply it to real git tree.


>
> In response to me asking about https://sourcehut.org, in a recent thread
> you described your workflow:
>
>
> How much value would there be for you, as a first iteration of a
> solution, to get patches on the mailing-list automatically submitted as
> a PR (done by a bot) on GH?
>
> 	robert
If the person posting it doesn't use Github, then reviewing the pull
request goes to vain. Unless it somehow returns the feedback to sender,
but that could get dirty real fast.  We sometimes give a lot of feedback
and require fixes before it can be merged. Other than that, it's an
interesting idea, but it adds more hoops to the process and that adds
probability to have mistakes / lose the contribution on the way.

-- juippis