Agreed on what Daniel said. I'd much prefer to keep my extensions on Gerrit, but it becomes slightly frustrating when you have to wait two weeks for the repository to be created. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>wrote: > Rather than expanding +2 I'm a little more concerned about allowing more > people to create repositories. > > Currently it can take a half week waiting for a new repo just so you can > contribute a new extension, and there's typically no notification. > We need to make getting multiple new extensions into version control > somewhat close to how easy it was for a committer to do it back in svn. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:01:03 -0700, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi folks, >> >> To help accelerate code review, we (WMF) have recently made efforts to >> expand the +2 merge right on Git/Gerrit, consistent with the idea that >> +2 is an expression of trust and confidence in someone's judgment >> rather than an indicator of universal technical competence. >> >> For example, you might have +2 on core, but specialize in front-end >> code, or documentation fixes, or test changes. That means you would be >> expected to only merge changes relevant to those areas, and we trust >> you to exercise good judgment to do so. >> >> Our intent is therefore to grant +2 more broadly than we have in the >> past, but to also establish clear parameters under which we would >> revoke it. >> >> So we've: >> >> - expanded +2 to all full-time WMF engineers by adding them to a 'wmf' >> group which has +2 rights on the following repos: apps, glam, >> integration, mediawiki, qa, search, translatewiki, webplatform.org >> >> - been more open in handing out +2 to MediaWiki core. Sumana has been >> actively nominating trusted volunteers to ensure that they get merge >> rights. Five volunteers have gained maintainership rights in the past >> week, and we're encouraging you to apply: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_**ownership<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_ownership> >> >> - posted a draft policy for owners of the +2 permission here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/%2B2<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/%2B2> >> >> This last bit is the critical part -- as we expand +2, these are the >> terms under which reviewers would be expected to operate. Please leave >> comments on the talk page if anything strikes you as onerous or >> unreasonable, or missing. >> >> Hopefully this will reduce friction introduced with the Git/Gerrit >> permissions model and review-related blockers. >> >> All best, >> Erik >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
