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.
<quote name="Amir Ladsgroup" date="2015-05-05" time="07:05:48 +0000"> > Hey, > Github has a huge community of developers that collaborating with them can > be beneficial for us and them but Wikimedia codes are in gerrit (and in > future in phabricator) and our bug tracker is in phabrictor. sometimes It > feels we are in another planet. > Wikimedia has a mirror in github but we close pull requests immediately and > we barely check issues raised there. Also there is a big notice in > github[1], "if you want to help, do it our way". Suddenly I got an idea > that if we can synchronize github activities with gerrit and phabricator, > it would help us by letting others help in their own way. It made me so > excited that I wrote a bot yesterday to automatically duplicates patches of > pull requests in gerrit and makes a comment in the pull request stating we > made a patch in gerrit. I did a test in pywikibot and it worked well [2][3]. > > Note that the bot doesn't create a pull request for every gerrit patch but > it creates a gerrit patch for every (open) pull requests. > > But before I go on we need to discuss on several important aspects of this > idea: > 1- Is it really necessary to do this? Do you agree we need something like > that? > 2-I think a bot to duplicate pull requests is not the best idea since it > creates them under the bot account and not under original user account. We > can create a plugin for phabrictor to do that but issues like privacy would > bother us. (using OAuth wouldn't be a bad idea) What do you think? What do > you suggest? > 3- Even if we create a plugin, still a bot to synchronize comments and code > reviews is needed. I wrote my original code in a way that I can expand this > to do this job too, but do you agree we need to do this? > 4- We can also expand this bot to create a phabricator task for each issue > that has been created (except pull requests). Is it okay? > > I published my code in [4]. > > [1]: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core "Github mirror of > "pywikibot/core" - our actual code is hosted with Gerrit (please see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing" > [2]: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/pull/5 > [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/208906 > [4]: https://github.com/Ladsgroup/sync_github_bot > > Best
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