Mailman 3 October 2016 - core-workflow

instructions for cherrypicking a change from master
by Brett Cannon 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Since we're going with a cherrypicking for managing changes that apply to multiple versions of Python, we need to come up with the set of instructions on how to take e.g. a change committed in master and cherrypick it into 3.6. Anyone have such a set of instructions handy?

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What instructions to give for squashing PRs from the CLI?
by Brett Cannon 08 Oct '16

08 Oct '16

While we will use GitHub's Squash and Merge button for PRs, that doesn't meant everyone will want to use it; some people just prefer using a CLI. That means we need to come up with a set of instructions on how to take a GitHub PR and perform a squash commit manually at the CLI (committing a patch from bugs.python.org is simply since there's no squashing to do). Anyone have that set of commands handy?

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GitHub migration update
by Brett Cannon 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

As always, the master TODO list is kept at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/#cpython-repo . To summarize: - The bugs.python.org changes have patches but they need to land (hopefully Maciej Szulik or R. David Murray can help with that) - Ned Deily and R. David said they could help with the IRC and emails to python-checkins at the core dev sprint last month (unless I'm remembering wrong :) - Ned said PEP 101 will get updated by him - sys._git is coded but awaiting a code review by Ned (and probably deciding if it should be in Python 3.6 or just straight into 3.7) - Updating hg.python.org/lookup is still needed/desired - Need to check if the current mirror is actually good enough to just keeping using to avoid breaking everyone's clone of the repository, or if we truly do need to fully regenerate the repo - Need to finish updating the devguide So a bunch of stuff is in-progress which is great! Probably the thing that I need the most help with ATM is updating the devguide. There's a `github` branch at https://github.com/python/devguide/tree/github where we're trying to eliminate or move mentions of Mercurial over to Git (see https://github.com/python/devguide/milestone/1 for the relevant issues). We also need to figure out exactly what git commands we want for doing squash commits from the command-line (we will have the Squash and Merge button on GitHub, but some people prefer a CLI and the commands that GitHub provides are not squash ones), and we also need instructions on how to cherrypick a change that went into master but needs to be backported to an older version(s) of Python (I will start separate threads for that discussion). At the core sprints last month, Ned and I talked and we agreed that we wouldn't switch until after 3.6.0 came out so as to not risk botching the release because of the migration. That means the switchover won't happen any sooner than mid/late December, but luckily most of this stuff can still be done (and tested) prior to officially switching so this doesn't need to hold anything up.

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