Re: Supporting interworking with repository branches on github

Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Organization Simplon B.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/24/2011 01:29 AM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:50:49 -0500, Tres Seaver<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Second, it is already feasible to work with modern VCSes against the
>> existing SVN repository:  I've been doing it with bzr for literally years
>> now;  I know of lots of documentation on using git against SVN as well. Of
>> course, Github is more than a VCS, but its main advantage over other
>> solutions lies in being able to accept casual contributions from non-core
>> developers, which is hardly in scope for the early phases of the Zope4
>> effort.
> github enables a peer review process: while everybody who signed the
> plone committer agreement could just commit to the plone repo, we do
> pull-requests and somebody else with commit rights checks the request
> and merges.

We've never had a problem with peer review before. People review the 
commit lists which receive all commits with full diffs and react if they 
see something off. That is a very well working peer review system. I 
don't see that improving with github; in fact I see it becoming worse: 
commit emails no longer get diffs at all, and people are less likely to 
look at a webinterface for a quick review than they are to take a quick 
look at an email. The move from Plone to github certainly made me stop 
all review work, where I reviewed all commits to core code before.

Wichert.
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