Hey guys, Just because it is annoying me a little bit the last days I would like to hear your opinion about this before nagging the infrastructure team if this is possible at all. The scenario is the following:
While I've absolutely no problem with the current ASF ways (provide patches via JIRA & central SVN) I think it is quite a pain to either review code and/or discuss ideas & "code-snippets". On the other hand, with github & git getting bigger and bigger, ASF already with mirrors on github and github with a REALLY great code review functionality I think the following feature could be useful: if a pull-request is added to our fork at github the typical notification mail is not send to a unique person but rather to our dev list. If we reply on this mail it will be (a) mirrored to the github discussion thread and (b) (as the identity of the dev-list I assume) back to the github discussion thread. If we (or the provider of the request) add a comment to the discussion thread the notification will be sent to the dev list (same thread) again. Since this can create some amount of traffic I think this can also be a [email protected] list. Once we conclude that a patch-request from an user is good enough the patch could be created and attached to an JIRA. IMHO this would make the entire code-review and dicussion process ways easier and still public accessible and followable by all commiters/devs. WDYT? Kind regards, Andreas
