[core-workflow] Questions about the proposed workflows

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> It's Dec 1, which means it's time for any questions people have about the
> proposed workflows so we can get answers by Dec 15.
>
> I have one question that applies to both proposals and one specific to
> GitLab. The general one is whether both Guido and me can both be happy. :)
> Guido doesn't want intermediate commits nor what he calls "merge turds" to
> show up in the history. I want to be able to do merges from the browser. Do
> either GitHub or GitLab provide a way through the web UI to give Guido what
> he wants, or will it always require having a checkout and SSH keys set up
> in order to do a PR merge? If only Guido can be made happy then that means
> either proposal becomes an easy way for people to get code hosting for
> their forks and a review tool but not a PR management platform since merges
> would occur outside the website and merges would simply be a `git push`
> which is basically what we do now to do the final merge for a patch.
>

Honestly I don't want to stand in the way of progress here. As long as
there is a way to avoid the merge turds when doing the merge from the
command line, I am okay with merge turds existing for merges done from the
website. (A bigger question might be if merging a patch across three
branches will become any easier. At this point I'm reluctant to accept
small asyncio PRs because I have to merge then into 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6. But I
expect that this would be a matter of git command line tricks regardless of
the hosting platform.)


> The GitLab-specific question is what, if anything, is GitLab prepared to
> offer us? Both Nick and Barry have hinted that GitLab would host us, listen
> to our needs, etc., but it has always seemed to be speculation. Do we have
> concrete information as to what GitLab is willing to do for us?
>

in the past we've had such arrangements, and IIRC typically over the years
the hosting company has lost interest. We're better off being hosted on the
default terms by a thriving company than by a company that's just scraping
by offering us an incentive.

Ignoring that, what might GitHub offer?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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