On 1/24/14, 4:47 PM, John Marino wrote:
On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote:
I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized
around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that
people who can make decisions and changes would notice it and consider
them, since as they say, the squeeky wheel gets the grease, that's all. At
no point I insisted on forcing anyone to anything, and I dont think that's
neither only nor a viable solution.
It seems obvious that current process doesnt work very well, then I'd aim
at reorganizing that process - it appears that there is no roles specified,
so the responsibility is blurred, and when everyone is responsible for one
thing, in practice no one is. Perhaps role assignment could be of any help?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but surely I'm coming off that way.
Again, nobody is obligated to accept any assignment. They have to
volunteer to do it. The only person that The Big Lebowski can influence
here is himself.
Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you
really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis,
my guess is that would be very welcome and we'd figure out a way to set
that up. It would definitely help, especially for those maintainer that
"approve" patches but the PRs never get opened (or set to a better state
than "open").
At some point we'll have a new PR system, that fact might be having an
impact on current PRs as well...
To me it would speak of tooling as opposed to anything.
Does the ports system have a 1 or 2 click interface for merging PRs like
for instance github?
Could ports take PRs in the form of pull requests on github?
Wouldn't that just turn the number of updates into a few minor clicks?
(also wouldn't it make it easier for ports submitters)?
(maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes
this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.)
-Alfred
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