Re: Please merge the three pull requests on GitHub

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Andrew Miloradovsky
<miloradovsky gmail com> wrote:
> Where, reaching the step 4, we realize that we have to send a patch set,
> and the review process is fully manual, nothing even close to the pull
> requests mechanism exists. Or... the manual is simply outdated and we
> have to look for a more efficient submission method somewhere else. At
> least that were my thoughts.

The described process is one way to do it that will work for anyone,
especially newcomers. There are other ways. Many developers use a
command line tool called git-bz that allows one to interact with
Bugzilla directly from your shell, and we find that superior to the
workflow from GitHub which forces you to do stuff in a Web browser.
It’s at http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/git-bz/ in case you want to give
it a try.

In any case I think the “go fuck myself” in your initial mail was exaggerated.


> Yes I do! But the process of using Bugzilla feels like a step backward.

It’s certainly different, but it’s a question of habit. To people who
work with Bugzilla everyday, GitHub sometimes feels like a step
backward. I’m not going to discuss this further as it can easily
derive into a sterile argument.

GNOME is evaluating alternatives, which means we may be using
something else at some point. Stay tuned.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director