Le 01/07/2011 15:44, Itamar Turner-Trauring a écrit : > On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 15:23 +0200, Laurens Van Houtven wrote: > > >> Well, part of the hypothesis of the effects of moving to Github is >> that a) the clear separation between "core contributor" and "random >> contributor" because a bit more subtle, b) it becomes easier for >> external contributors to contribute. So yeah, I guess it is, but it'd >> be cool if it became a bit more open to contributions from the more >> general public :) > > I'm not sure getting more patches should be our main goal, for now. > (It's a good *long term* goal!).
At least personally, moving away from SVN and Trac is not to directly get more patches. It's mainly that I want as a contributor to use better tools. Also, I don't want us to maintain the infrastructure; for example, moving to a more recent Trac cost me personally a good amount of time; we also have that problem with spam. > We have a large number of uncommitted third-party patches in tickets. We > have a large number of half-finished developer branches (I'm working on > a couple, since it's an easy way to get things done). These were not > left uncommitted or unfinished because of tool problems, but because of > other issues. Dealing with this seems to me to be higher priority than > getting even more patches we won't get around to incorporating. > > If you want more contributions, improving the processes so abandonment > is less likely to happen is the first step. I can certainly think of > ways in which e.g. github might help with that, but this is not a > *technical* problem, it's an organizational and social problem, and at > the very least you should think about how to solve it before redoing all > the technical infrastructure. For example, making sure all reviewable > tickets get reviewed within 7 days, and all new tickets get an answer > within 3 days. > > If a switch github is super-successful in getting us more patches, and > then those patches sit in limbo forever, all we've done is alienate > potential developers. Well, that logic is a bit flawed though: you're kind of saying that we shouldn't use a better tool because it may bring us more contributors than we can handle. At the end of the day, we would still use a better tool though. -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
