Yes, it is difficult It's hard to request new repository and have it created within short period of time.
It's hard to navigate in gerrit It's hard to checkout mediawiki repository, because it's huge It's hard to find out how to commit / push (there is no guide how to setup git so that it works as it is on github, unless you are git expert you may find it hard, because you mostly need to fix your git config files in order to be able to git push) On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you wondered how GiGeGat [1] works for volunteer developers if > even paid developers have difficulties with it? We have already seen > cases where it works, but we don't know much about the cases where > volunteers decide to give up. > > Here, however, is one example [2] of the latter which I want to > highlight. The developer finds it too slow and complicated and wants > to move to GitHub and as consequence we cannot provide translation > services for his extensions at translatewiki.net. > > Anyone willing to dig deeper what problems there are and try to resolve them? > -Niklas > > [1] My favorite abbreviation for Git, Gerrit and Gated trunk > [2] > http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Add_MediaWiki_Extensions_from_github_to_translation > > -- > Niklas Laxström > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
