Integration with pull requests
- https://github.com/blog/712-pull-requests-2-0

New issue stuff:
- https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation

 <https://github.com/blog/712-pull-requests-2-0>  What about a gradual
migration? Prohibit new issues on Google, and gradually close them all off.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, first off, I'm not even sure if that would solve the problem.  How
> well does GitHub integrate their issues with their pull requests.
>
> Anyway, the conditions for moving to any other issue tracker would be:
>
> - It would need to be at least as powerful as Google Code.  Ideally, if we
> are going through the hassle to move, it should be more powerful.  This is
> talking about things like labels and stuff (I'd need to check to see how
> good GitHub is with this).
>
> - We would need to transfer all the current issues over to the new tracker,
> keeping all numbers the same.  This is the most important one, and also the
> most difficult.  It's important because we have references to issue numbers
> *everywhere*: in the code, in the commit log, in the mailing list, etc.
>
> Currently, Google Code makes it kind of hard to export the issues (you have
> to do it manually; there's no xml or svn output).
>
> Personally, I'm pretty content with the Google Code issue tracker, other
> than the issues I mentioned below.  It works well, and has some nice
> features (like the advanced search).
>
> I haven't played with GitHub's issue tracker too much, but from what I saw,
> it isn't as good (yet).
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Haz wrote:
>
> What were the road-blocks from moving the issues to github again?
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas on ways that we can better manage the pull
>> requests at GitHub and the issues at Google Code?  Right now there are some
>> issues:
>>
>> - People forget to reference the issue number on the pull request or the
>> pull request on the issue.  The best case is that I notice this and fix it,
>> but it's possible that people don't even realize that there is an issue for
>> the pull request or visa versa.
>>
>> - Even when people remember to reference the pull request on the issue,
>> either they forget or don't have permissions to add the NeedsReview and
>> username labels.  I think this can be partially fixed by making sure that
>> all regular contributors are members in the Google Code project so that they
>> can add labels to issues.  I used to be able to handle this manually pretty
>> easily, but lately the traffic has increased by quite a bit (because of the
>> GSoC students) and it's getting harder to manage.  Ironically, this makes
>> the labels even more essential.
>>
>> - People forget to check the corresponding issue before pushing in a pull
>> request, like as happened with issue 2302/pull 257.  I am just using this as
>> a recent example, I am not trying to blame Chris here.
>>
>> - It's easy to type the wrong issue or pull number.  Pull 257 is also an
>> example of this (and again, I don't want to blame anyone here; the point is
>> that typos are easy to make).
>>
>> Does anyone know if it would be possible to have some kind of more
>> automated system, where most or all of the above are done automatically?  In
>> particular, it would be nice if the following could be automated:
>>
>> - If a pull request is created, then the issue should be marked as
>> NeedsReview with a label of the person's name.  This could be based on
>> referencing an issue number in a pull request.
>>
>> - If someone puts the NeedsBetterPatch or even PassedReview label on an
>> issue, the pull request should be notified.
>>
>> - All pull requests should have an issue, I think.  Maybe something could
>> warn someone if they forgot to reference an issue number in a pull request,
>> and ask them if they want to create a new issue for it, or reference an
>> already existing one.
>>
>> - In the pull requests, automatically change "issue 1234" to "[issue 1234:
>> solve(4**x-x**4, x) (and similar) should give all solutions](
>> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1234)", or add that as a
>> new comment.  This would make it so that you could see the issue title,
>> which would let you verify that the number was correct, and it also would
>> auto-link it, which would make navigation easier.
>>
>> With that, you would just have to make sure that you reference the issue
>> number in the pull request (it could also parse commit messages), and the
>> rest would be taken care of.
>>
>> I'm thinking this should be done by some kind of bot somewhere, but even a
>> script that you run from your computer and goes through and it does it from
>> your account (after checking to see if it has already been done or not)
>> would work.
>>
>> I'm putting out a request to the community, because I don't know how to
>> program such a thing. Does this sound like a good idea?  Does it sound
>> feasible?
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
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