[core-workflow] GitHub New Feature

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 September 2016 at 04:36, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> Looks Like GitHub is launching new features:
>
> “Projects” - Allows you to make arbitrary columns and arrange your issues/PRs between them. I don’t directly see these as useful, however it could be nice for sprints or something. Overall I think this feature largely works best for projects using Github issues and not for us.

Right, it's fleshing out their capabilities to better compete with the
Atlassian suite of tools in a commercial context. Good for centrally
managed projects, less useful for looser collaborations. (although I
can see PyPA potentially getting more use out of it than CPython)

> Code Reviews! - This provides a more traditional code review feature set for Pull Requests. When making a comment on a github Pull request you now have the option between “Add a single comment” (what previously existed”) and “Start a review”. This also allows people to submit all their comments at once as Just comments, or with an Approval or Disapproval of the PR as it exists. Approval/disapproval shows up like a CI status check and repositories can optionally have branches flagged as requiring review (which requires at least one approval, and no disapprovals).
>
> They say they’re also working on additional follow up features, like explicit ability to request reviews from someone.

They seem to have taken the "Why do some folks prefer the way Gerrit
handles reviews?" question and realised that it isn't just folks being
unreasonable, but about those features actually being useful in
particular contexts :)

> They also allow organizations to mandate 2Factor auth as well— This seems like it might be a good idea for us?

Probably not as part of the initial migration (since we don't have 2FA
now), but we should definitely be planning to enable it after the
migration is done and folks have settled into the new workflows.

Cheers,
Nick.

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