Good idea.
On Aug 18, 2011, at 23:06, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
