<quote name="Amir Ladsgroup" date="2015-05-05" time="19:46:05 +0000">
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:13 AM Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
Quick general question: are you proposing this for pywikibot only? I think the answer is yes, just making sure.
No, I'm proposing to do this in general. I never mentioned pywikibot as the goal I just said I did a test in pywikibot and it worked well.
OK, wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying.
A few comments: 1) Remember that the plan of record is for all repos to migrate away from Gerrit (which we all hate) to Phab's Differential. The timing for that is probably next quarter (ie: work starting July 1st).
2) We tried this once before, specifically Yuvi, with his SuchABot. He'll probably reply here with his bot's code and examples from when it was running.
2b) I'm not sure the work will be worth the pay-off. We've seen the arguments before and when we did have SuchABot running there weren't, from what I heard, a ton of success stories. I know it's tempting to say "but Github is where all developers are" but that's not entirely true for, especially, our community of developers who primarily come from the Wikipedia/MediaWiki communities (generally defined). Now, I realize I'm going off of anecdotal data here, but I haven't seen much other anecdotal data that seems to suggest otherwise (other than gut feelings).
3) The repository of record will continue to be Gerrit until we migrate to Differential (in Phabricator).
Greg