Progress on GitHub and alternatives

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 12:35 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 11:07 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 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 !
> 
> I have both scripts up and running.  What I need now is some feedback
> from you and the rest of the community. 
> 
> I need to know which of the scripts (or both) to run long term.  Look
> here:
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/testlist/2015-September/thread.html
> 
> and tell me what you like, and what you don't.  If you want to see 
> the
> actual mail output, the subscription page is here:
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/testlist
> 
> I also need folks to push their own patches to github, make pull
> requests and comment on the workflow.
> 
> Currently, the service running git-format-patch (pull-request-mailer)
> *will* automatically CC mails to those listed as From and Signed-off
> -by
> in patches in pull requests.  Let me know if that would be an issue.
> 
> The other script, gh-mailinglist-notifications attaches the patches 
> to
> just one mail, which I understand may be a preference. 
> 
> Finally, we need to figure out how we will communicate back to the
> author, as sadly replies to these mails won't make it back to github.
> Either a few of us become members of the project and get the direct
> pull request mails as well (that can be replied to), or we can leave
> pull-request-mailer to write a message like this one
> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/pull/7

Depending on the feedback, I'll enable mails to samba-technical in a
day or two, and then my plan, again depending on feedback it to
announce on samba-announce that we are now accepting pull requests on
github.

The need to send in a Developers Certificate of Origin (if working for
a company) and to add signed-off-by lines will still apply. 

We should also update our README file, as this is what github users see
first.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team         https://samba.org
Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT   
https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba