On 29/07/2012 14:42, Petr Bena wrote:
Yes, it is difficult
It's hard to request new repository and have it created within short period of time.
Need more Chad's :L
It's hard to navigate in gerrit
When is this not being discussed/debated on/argued over...
It's hard to checkout mediawiki repository, because it's huge
It took a while to checkout the SVN as well in my experience... especially if you checked out from trunk/phase3 or the whole of trunk...
It's hard to find out how to commit / push (there is no guide how to setup git so that it works as it is on github, unless you are git expert you may find it hard, because you mostly need to fix your git config files in order to be able to git push)
The guide used at the Berlin Hackathon this year was pretty good, and I managed to work it out, with the exception of jumping the gun a bit and using the wrong repo (key point: check what your doing) but other than that, I've managed to use Git everytime I've wanted to now. The guide for anyone that hasn't seen it, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial . As far as I remember, I've had no problems using that and setting up my git stuff a few times on Linux and once with TortoiseGit although I haven't tried pushing from that yet - although pull and clone seemed to work well.
I'd say I kind of agree with the other points, but I'd also sort of disagree. Being someone that doesn't commit/push a lot of code, the things I have done (which, are relatively simple) we're easy for me to do...
-- Lewis Cawte
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
Have you wondered how GiGeGat [1] works for volunteer developers if even paid developers have difficulties with it? We have already seen cases where it works, but we don't know much about the cases where volunteers decide to give up.
Here, however, is one example [2] of the latter which I want to highlight. The developer finds it too slow and complicated and wants to move to GitHub and as consequence we cannot provide translation services for his extensions at translatewiki.net.
Anyone willing to dig deeper what problems there are and try to resolve them? -Niklas
[1] My favorite abbreviation for Git, Gerrit and Gated trunk [2] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Add_MediaWiki_Extensions_from_g...
-- Niklas Laxström
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