I need to say something important, fortunately we didn't loose xqt, he (or she) was on vacation for one week. xqt said if the problem of git won't be solved, he (or she) will abandon participating in pywikibot, but main problem got solved and we are happy to have him :)

about the migration: it's a very big decision, we need to talk about it so much more and test it before taking any action. although I prefer status quo, I will help on any improvement
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe@wikimedia.org> wrote:

You also have the option of not using git-review. I don't.

-Chad

On Oct 6, 2013 11:23 AM, "Strainu" <strainu10@gmail.com> wrote:
2013/10/6 Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch>:
>
> I was not there - but you should not simply neglect that there are
> serious issues with git under win. Please ask e.g. Xqt - as far as I
> know he was not able to set-up a properly working system for git
> review under win until today... which means we have lost one of our
> best and hardest-working developers just because git migration... that
> is bad!!

Gerrit has a bad reputation, and seemingly well deserved. Just
yesterday, Andrew Klapper was asking in a bug a submitted if the
pywikibot would not prefer getting patches in gerrit directly and I
was like "oh God, plese don't let that happen" :)

But if the review is the major problem on Windows, why not go with
github? There you can do basically everything online, including
applying patches. There is even something called "Github for Windows
[and/or Mac]" [1], which if I understand correctly is basically a git
client.  If Xqt, or anyone else for that matter, can submit on their
local git branch, it should be fairly trivial to implement "reviews"
as pull requests merged by someone elese that the submitter.

Sure, this would mean separating from the WMF "infrastructure" and I
know a few people who would hate that, but for me, this is the smart
thing to do. What do you think?

[1] http://windows.github.com/

> To make it clear I personally would like to just forget about win -
> but that is not very clever, even more since we had a hard time during
> git migration just to keep all the stuff running for win users. To me
> it looks very like MWF did forget about win developers...



>
> Just to have this mentioned once more - you all know that there is
> still the possibility to checkout the code by svn (thanks to github)!
> Please confer [1] as all git repos are mirrored to github and they
> allow also svn access to the data. Hope this helps for regular users.
>
> [1] https://github.com/search?q=%40wikimedia+pywikibot
>
> Greetings
> DrTrigon
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