On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:15:00 -0700, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 07/29/2012 09:17 AM, Niklas Laxström 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_…
Thanks for the heads-up, Niklas. I think other people in the thread
have provided the current stats around commits and number of committers,
but to return to the original point: it looks like the TWN thread there
has stopped without a resolution. Niklas, is there any outcome, or is
the developer still awaiting a solution?
It also looks like it didn't even go on for long.
I'd like to know what kind of issues he had, rather than just the fact
that he had issues, and we know there are issues which may or may not be
the ones he had trouble with.
He's using GitHub so it looks like he's fine with the Git part.
Is it Gerrit he had trouble with or the fundamental idea of Gated repos
where he waits for review?
Or is his issue more with the current trouble trying to create new repos
and get into development?
If he has Gated repo issues, would Gerrit's direct push permission work?
If Gerrit is really the issue and he doesn't actually have an issue with
the idea of a Gated repo, then would another gated workflow work? eg:
Would Phabricator's work? Or would mine work?
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]