On 25 March 2015, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 10:21:41 AM UTC-5, Bruno Sutic wrote:
> > I'm curious, when a switch is made, will Github's "pull request"
> > feature be used? Or will code contributions still be done with
> > patches via mailing list?
> >
> > I'd guess a move to "pull request" workflow will be done since it's
> > so effortless on github, but maybe I'm jumping the gun here.
>
> I'd like to take this a step further:
>
> If pull requests will NOT be used, then does GitHub offer anything
> at all that we cannot get elsewhere? I.e. does it give any benefits
> beyond the fact that a lot of people are using Git?
>
> If Bram starts using pull requests, sure GitHub makes sense because
> a lot of people already have accounts there. But if not...BitBucket
> supports Git, Kiln supports Git and also adds the grouping of multiple
> repositories into one project, and there may be others.
>
> I think it would be nice to have an "official" Mercurial mirror, which
> isn't possible at GitHub. And I think an official mirror will be
> harder to maintain if we need to use multiple sites for it, especially
> if each site has a separate bug tracker.
Mirroring can be done with a hook, either client-side (a post-commit
Git hook on Bram's machine that commits and pushes to Mercurial), or
server-side (a webhook on GitHub).
Having multiple bug trackers is probably a bad idea, but bug
trackers can be disabled on the mirror sites.
> By the way, I originally was going to suggest Kiln because of their
> "Kiln Harmony" feature which allowed using either Mercurial or Git on
> the *same repository*, but apparently they have quietly disabled that
> feature for new accounts (according to their support team in an email
> I sent asking about it when I couldn't find the feature). No word on
> whether the feature may be coming back, which is a shame, since it
> could solve the debate rather quickly by not needing to choose at all.
/lcd
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