[python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 2 May 2017 at 11:29 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 5/2/2017 10:07 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 May 2017 09:36:02 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> IMO, it's much easier for everyone to just always point people
> >> to BPO for discussions and keep PRs reserved for code reviews.
> >
> > I agree with Mark-Andre here.  It will take effort on our part to
> > make our culture be "discuss on BPO", but it will produce a much
> > superior history to what github PRs produce, so I think it is worth it.
>
> It would easier to move discussion to bpo if there were a clickable link
> from PR to bpo, just as there is in the opposite direction.  I believe
> that there is a workflow issue to add this, but last I knew, it was
> bogged down in where to put the link, or something.
>

The idea is being tracked at https://github.com/python/bedevere/issues/3 and
it isn't bogged down so much as the people typically writing these
bots/integrations having the time to implement the idea. I should also
mention I'm hoping to have the link be accompanied with a short blurb
reminding people to keep discussions on GH to just code reviewing and
everything else going to bpo.
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