Progress on GitHub and alternatives

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 06:12:11PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 17:28 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > G'Day,
> > 
> > For the past while it has concerned me that we need a better review
> > system and that we should have a mirror and be accepting 
> > contributions
> > via github. 
> > 
> > To be clear, github isn't really a review system, but it has a 
> > massive
> > user community that we want to try to better connect with.
> > 
> > The plan is to make every github pull request turn into a mail on the
> > mailing list, so that we keep our mailing-list based workflow. 
> 
> > The URL for the official Samba Team repo is: 
> > https://github.com/samba-team/samba
> 
> I've done this now, and we have some test notification scripts sending mail to testlist.  
> You can see how this looks at https://lists.samba.org/archive/testlist/2015-September/thread.html
> It needs a lot of work to be really nice, but it is a start.  Pull
> request on https://github.com/abartlet/gh-mailinglist-notifications are
> very, very welcome.
> I'm also trying to get another tool working:
> https://github.com/abartlet/pull-request-mailer
> This will post patches to the list, but for now it times out trying to
> clone the samba repo, so needs some love.

Great work Andrew, thanks for doing this !

Jeremy.