No kind of technical gugugaga is worth to lose xqt. He is more important in this project by far than any infrastructure.
2013/10/7 Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]> > I need to say something important, fortunately we didn't loose xqt, he (or > she) was on vacation for one week. xqt said if the problem of git won't be > solved, he (or she) will abandon participating in pywikibot, but main > problem got solved and we are happy to have him :) > > about the migration: it's a very big decision, we need to talk about it so > much more and test it before taking any action. although I prefer status > quo, I will help on any improvement > Best > > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Chad Horohoe <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You also have the option of not using git-review. I don't. >> >> -Chad >> On Oct 6, 2013 11:23 AM, "Strainu" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2013/10/6 Dr. Trigon <[email protected]>: >>> > >>> > I was not there - but you should not simply neglect that there are >>> > serious issues with git under win. Please ask e.g. Xqt - as far as I >>> > know he was not able to set-up a properly working system for git >>> > review under win until today... which means we have lost one of our >>> > best and hardest-working developers just because git migration... that >>> > is bad!! >>> >>> Gerrit has a bad reputation, and seemingly well deserved. Just >>> yesterday, Andrew Klapper was asking in a bug a submitted if the >>> pywikibot would not prefer getting patches in gerrit directly and I >>> was like "oh God, plese don't let that happen" :) >>> >>> But if the review is the major problem on Windows, why not go with >>> github? There you can do basically everything online, including >>> applying patches. There is even something called "Github for Windows >>> [and/or Mac]" [1], which if I understand correctly is basically a git >>> client. If Xqt, or anyone else for that matter, can submit on their >>> local git branch, it should be fairly trivial to implement "reviews" >>> as pull requests merged by someone elese that the submitter. >>> >>> Sure, this would mean separating from the WMF "infrastructure" and I >>> know a few people who would hate that, but for me, this is the smart >>> thing to do. What do you think? >>> >>> [1] http://windows.github.com/ >>> >>> > To make it clear I personally would like to just forget about win - >>> > but that is not very clever, even more since we had a hard time during >>> > git migration just to keep all the stuff running for win users. To me >>> > it looks very like MWF did forget about win developers... >>> >>> >>> >>> > >>> > Just to have this mentioned once more - you all know that there is >>> > still the possibility to checkout the code by svn (thanks to github)! >>> > Please confer [1] as all git repos are mirrored to github and they >>> > allow also svn access to the data. Hope this helps for regular users. >>> > >>> > [1] https://github.com/search?q=%40wikimedia+pywikibot >>> > >>> > Greetings >>> > DrTrigon >>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) >>> > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ >>> > >>> > iEYEARECAAYFAlJRMZsACgkQAXWvBxzBrDCx8QCgj+l08M7D0Y6lvHcCOLDtjJLn >>> > mlUAn3RxKdp2+FEpQl7ohTq+aYBxEhtL >>> > =4Rof >>> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Pywikipedia-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >> >> > > > -- > Amir > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- Bináris
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