[Twisted-Python] on contributions

2013-06-04 Thread Glyph
A few times recently (most recently in my email on Github) I have mentioned that I am more interested in getting more people to review Twisted tickets than in getting more people to write new patches to Twisted. Based on some feedback that other contributors have sent me privately, I'm afraid t

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Terry Jones
> So when the code is ready, the feature branch including any accumulated commits (history) will > get merged - and not a clean diff against the main repo? I'm very far from being a git expert. In fact, I'm kind of the opposite - git and I have a stormy relationship and everyone has to tell me wha

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Tobias Oberstein
Terry, thanks alot for your detailed explanation of a workflow. For me, that sounds reasonable and workable. >At some point everyone who's interested will have contributed to the >discussion, to the code, and signed off.  Then you merge it, using the web UI So when the code is ready, the feat

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, I think moving to github will be a huge win for the Twisted project, and all the migration/integration issues are manageable. I would recommend you keep two things in mind: (1) I am a member of the FreeBSD project, and am mentoring a Google Summer of Code student. I pushed the student

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Terry Jones
The general workflow that's being described is: - You open an issue for all bugs, enhancements, etc. - When someone starts working on one of these, they create a branch (we use descriptive branch names and put - at the end, with the issue number). - When the branch reaches the point where t

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Tobias Oberstein
in general: +1 for this > Finally, my own minor concern: Github has no notion of a "code review" as a > unit of work.  A pull request is just "open" until it is "closed". > I _think_ the following is true (if so, I find that strange) - pls correct me if I'm wrong: A pull request is not tied t

Re: [Twisted-Python] github, again

2013-06-04 Thread Adi Roiban
Thanks for working on this! Here are the points where I can help: 1. We'd need some consensus (hence this message). I am still new to Twisted and only sent a few patched, but I am looking forward for sending reviews in GitHub or BitButcket, any or them is better than the current read-only SVN b