Yes other things are important too. How can the review process be implemented. 
I made some PR at github an it is painfull: checkout the repository to a local 
working copy, create a new branch for the changes, fork the repository at 
github, submit the changes to the fork, create a pull request, wait and see. If 
the base has changed, deleting the fork and recreating it for a new patch is 
easier then try to forward the fork base to the repository one. In summary I 
fear some kind of deja-vu. Anyway we need technical support for a lot of 
things, documentation for volunteer and a lot of how-tos about review task must 
be cleared first. 

Best xqt


> Am 29.07.2020 um 15:47 schrieb Huji Lee <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> The transition from svn to git was hard; that is partly because git and svn 
> have totally different philosophies, and partly because the people who lead 
> those transitions are programmers by trade and the way they documented it was 
> not the right/sufficient way of documentation for habitual volunteer 
> contributors (like me).
> 
> The transition from gerrit to github can/should be simpler because we are 
> staying within the git world. But your point, xqt, about documentation is 
> important. One approach is to *demand* from WMF to provide support for 
> transitioning CI and other things.
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:47 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Isn’t this decided already as I have read Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 204, Issue 
>> 7? No glue what this means for us and our infrastructure. Surely we would 
>> have a lot of work to follow this change or get another solution running. 
>> (Haven’t we a discussion about it 4 years ago?) And only a few active people 
>> for our project.
>> 
>> I remember the change from svn to gerrit was very hard  and I was nearby 
>> giving up. And we lost other people like Binaris. The main problem for me 
>> was git/gerrit until I found a proper way to get it running (and wrote a 
>> manual for it). Thanks to Merlijn who gave me the crucial hint there.
>> 
>> For the new place I fear the main problems would be the CI setup and I think 
>> we would need support for it.
>> 
>> Best
>> xqt
>> 
>>>> Am 09.07.2020 um 23:14 schrieb Huji Lee <[email protected]>:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think that is a great idea. If Xqt could do that, it would be awesome.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:20 PM Kunal Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 2020-07-04 04:27, Maarten Dammers wrote:
>>>> > Of interest to us too. Someone in some WMF backroom has decided that
>>>> > we're switching from Gerrit to Gitlab. I'm no big fan of Gerrit, but
>>>> > this seems to be a very strange process. Comments on
>>>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/GitLab
>>>> 
>>>> As an update, it seems like we're going backwards (a good thing) and
>>>> going to have some consultation process/working group.
>>>> 
>>>> At [1] I've suggested that someone from the Pywikibot community be
>>>> included given how long it took us to do the SVN -> Git migration and
>>>> how we haven't really had our needs met using Wikimedia CI (someone
>>>> who's more active should correct me if I'm wrong/out of date on that).
>>>> 
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Vpbt50rwxgb2r6qn&topic_showPostId=vptws11hqdpmvlgx#flow-post-vptws11hqdpmvlgx
>>>> 
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