On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:48:30 -0400, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
Yesterday I was working on a few asyncio PRs and a bug in async/await.
All PRs required cherry-picking. Again, I was spending significant amount of time just creating branches/PRs for cherry-picking. Again waiting for CI checks (even thougn I always run the test suite before I push). In the end of the day, I was so frustrated and discouraged that I just stopped working on CPython.
Branch management was always the most time consuming part of committing, even under HG. But github has clearly made it worse. Personally I doubt I'm going to do any backports if I'm required to go visit some web pages to do it. That doesn't matter much, since I don't have much time for contribution and have done very few checkins in a good while (even before the switch). But Brett was hoping that github would make it *easier* to get stuff merged, and from my perspective that is only true for doc fixes (which, granted, is a help :), while making it harder for code fixes.
So, I think the backport-bot should probably be the top priority of whoever has time to work on this (which, unfortunately, is not me :(
Being able to backport without going through the PR process would also make sense to me (and I thought we were going to be able to do that), but I'm not involved enough in the conversations to know the downsides of that.
--David