On 07/29/2012 09:17 AM, Niklas Laxström 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

Thanks for the heads-up, Niklas.  I think other people in the thread
have provided the current stats around commits and number of committers,
but to return to the original point: it looks like the TWN thread there
has stopped without a resolution.  Niklas, is there any outcome, or is
the developer still awaiting a solution?

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

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