[Labs-l] Bots project is too permissive, let's discuss options

[Hazard-SJ]

I agree with DeltaQuad. I'm not entirely familiar with those systems myself. I've tried to get Git working on my computer (Windows 7) some time ago, but couldn't get the version control aspect to work (and maybe some other problems too). I actually eventually decided to give up and spend my valuable time on other things, and up to now, I find that I still have many things to do otherwise. I used the Git page on MediaWiki wiki and even seeked help in #mediawiki, but am still in this condition.


 
Hazard-SJ



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 From: Platonides <platonides at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Labs <labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Bots project is too permissive, let's discuss options
 
On 16/12/12 01:09, DeltaQuad Wikipedia wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I am a toolserver user who is trying to switch over to
> labs) Excuse my n00bness here, but when we talk about "need to be in a
> git repo" is a repo on github a workable answer for it? Or do I need
> another Labs based repo that I have no clue how to do and need to go
> around asking for documentation or spending several hours trying to
> figure out myself? Personally I would really like to see documentation
> all set out for this before changes are actually made, because otherwise
> you leave us who 1) don't completely understand the project 2) don't
> know *nix based OSes that well. It seems to be more of a bureaucratic
> hoop than anything. I know we are trying to protect users files here,
> and it's sad that something like someone files get erased, but do we
> have to make it more difficult for everyone, or can we find another
> solution. As for gerrit, I honestly have no clue how to use it, and I
> can usually understand interfaces pretty fast...this one was very
> confusing esp. since I don't know the difference between git and gerrit.
> And honestly I don't want to spend another several hours learning that,
> esp. over my Christmas break.

gerrit is like github. It's a place for managing git repositories,
although oriented to code review (while github is oriented to clones).

I haven't seen the script used by Ryan, but it probably works with github.

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