On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 08:17:47PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > > Back when I proposed the feature set that became bundles, I proposed > that it include a way for the outside contributor to create a ticket > from a bundle, which would be pushed to the remote repository for > disposition by someone with a commit bit. > > That never happened, but now I think it’s another good reason for > Fossil to have a forum feature. Someone with a forum login on a > repository but lacking a commit bit could say > > $ fossil bundle push --branch my-new-feature > > and have their un-sync’d my-new-feature branch bundled and pushed > to a sub-forum dedicated to accepting unsolicited outside > contributions. > > Effectively, the new “push” verb is “fossil bundle export > && send to contribution sub-forum,” with the local Fossil instance > transferring it directly to the remote just as with the normal push > feature. > > Someone with a commit bit could then do a one-click integration of the > bundle branch from the forum UI, presumably after testing it locally > on their machine. > > There are several advantages to doing it through Fossil UI instead of > the current mechanism: > > 1. fossil bundle import && test && fossil bundle import --publish && > send email is more involved than fossil up my-new-feature && test && > click “Integrate” in Fossil UI. > > 2. Like closing a ticket combined merging a branch with --integrate, > clicking that button would auto-close both the forum thread and the > branch. > > 3. By integrating it so tightly, the committer doesn’t need to > explicitly involve the local filesystem at all. The local Fossil > instance gets a copy of the bundled branch with the next sync past the > outside contributor’s push, and the integrate happens using that > same contributed bundle. There’s no need to rm > ~/Downloads/my-new-feature.bundle after integrating the bundle, nor > the bulky email containing it. > > 4. Now we’d have pull requests to shut the Git fans up, except > that they’d actually be push requests. :)
I'm not a fan of functionality that isn't specifically about a GUI being implemented only in the GUI. Give me a command-line way to handle it as well, at least. In fact, I would be happier with CLI-only than with GUI-only (which in this case would be web-only). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
