Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Lex Trotman
Just to pass on for those who don't read IRC, Colomban expects to add his input to this thread in a few days after he has finished some other (real world) commitments. Cheers Lex ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bi

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Lex Trotman
[...] > > I'm afraid I won't remember all those acronyms :-). Maybe just using plain > speech is fine. > Yes, as I said in another post: > Just say it in plain old English :) "I (do/do not) like the idea, I > (have/have not) reviewed the implementation and I (have/have not) > tested it on (win/li

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Jiří Techet
Hi Matthew, On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Matthew Brush wrote: > On 2016-01-05 12:46 PM, Jiří Techet wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> happy new year and let's celebrate it with something cheerful - zombies! >> >> > Wouldn't they only be zombies if we closed them and they re-opened > themselves? :) Ah,

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Jiří Techet
Hi Lex, On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Lex Trotman wrote: > Hi Jiri, > > Its a worthwhile thing to talk about. Some specific comments below, > but first a couple of general ones. > > I occasionally talk to some of the Geany devs/contributors in other > forums and its clear that at this moment G

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Lex Trotman
> > The advantage of labels is that you see them on the PR overview. Whereas > with comments you have to open every single PR and look for strings that may > indicate a review result. While labels can be named arbitrarily, in the end > there's going to be a handful common ones which can be looked o

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Matthew Brush
On 2016-01-06 03:47 AM, Lex Trotman wrote: On 6 January 2016 at 20:44, Thomas Martitz wrote: [...] I agree that PRs should be merged earlier, with possible fix-up/follow-up commits in a new PR. This way changes acutally get the testing they need. The problem with a development branch and with

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 06.01.2016 um 12:47 schrieb Lex Trotman: I can't put labels on github. The feature seems to be limited to those with write access to the repository, so it's useless if we want more reviewers. Please just add a comment, its actually clearer anyway since we don't have a well defined semantics

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 06.01.2016 um 12:39 schrieb Matthew Brush: On 2016-01-06 02:44 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: Am 06.01.2016 um 04:32 schrieb Matthew Brush: Agree, I sometimes avoid putting LGTM when I think something is a good idea, because I don't want to give the impression that I have (or even will) reviewed

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Lex Trotman
On 6 January 2016 at 20:44, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 06.01.2016 um 04:32 schrieb Matthew Brush: >> >> >> Agree, I sometimes avoid putting LGTM when I think something is a good >> idea, because I don't want to give the impression that I have (or even will) >> reviewed or tested it. Maybe just a "

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Matthew Brush
On 2016-01-06 02:44 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: Am 06.01.2016 um 04:32 schrieb Matthew Brush: Agree, I sometimes avoid putting LGTM when I think something is a good idea, because I don't want to give the impression that I have (or even will) reviewed or tested it. Maybe just a "thumbs up" could m

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 06.01.2016 um 04:32 schrieb Matthew Brush: Agree, I sometimes avoid putting LGTM when I think something is a good idea, because I don't want to give the impression that I have (or even will) reviewed or tested it. Maybe just a "thumbs up" could mean "good idea, though I haven't reviewed or

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-05 Thread Matthew Brush
On 2016-01-05 12:46 PM, Jiří Techet wrote: Hi, happy new year and let's celebrate it with something cheerful - zombies! Wouldn't they only be zombies if we closed them and they re-opened themselves? :) I've noticed there are more and more pull requests on github which don't get merged to

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-05 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi Jiri, Its a worthwhile thing to talk about. Some specific comments below, but first a couple of general ones. I occasionally talk to some of the Geany devs/contributors in other forums and its clear that at this moment Geany isn't their primary focus. That is my situation, which is why I conc

Re: [Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-05 Thread Per Löwgren
Hi Jiri, Happy new year to you too! It's been much work that needed to be finished before the year's end, and so the pull request has been delayed, that we were talking about. I'll get to it in a few days though. Considering the mentioned zombies there seem to be little hurry at the moment. Cheer

[Geany-Devel] Zombified pull requests

2016-01-05 Thread Jiří Techet
Hi, happy new year and let's celebrate it with something cheerful - zombies! I've noticed there are more and more pull requests on github which don't get merged to Geany. It's clear that people are fighting with time to make reviews of pull requests (and Colomban does a great job here!), however,