Dragan Simic <[email protected]> writes: > On 2025-09-28 19:53, Collin Funk wrote: >> Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> writes: >>> Note that we're considering using Sourceware-hosted Forgejo (which >>> Codeberg maintains and uses) for the GNU toolchain, with the advantages >>> above (especially automation-related advantages) in mind. See >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ForgeExperiment >> Have any projects begun using this yet? I am a glibc committer, and as >> far as I can tell no one has begun using it [1]. >> Maybe gcc and/or binutils have started experimenting with it? I do not >> follow their development closely. >> Collin >> [1] Well maybe they do for the Web UI which is nicer than gitweb and has >> features like code search. > > If I understood the forge experiment [2] correctly, it implements a > GitHub- style workflow that allows people to use pull requests, but > the end result are actually patches sent to the "old-school" mailing > lists?
This is the case for length of the experiment, the copy on the forge is read-only in a sense, and all patches merged are specified to be sent onto the mailing list, ergo people have to do it anyway currently. The end goal, to my understanding, is to not duplicate work, and skip the ML step, eventually. > If so, I find such an approach nearly perfect, because it merges the > best of both worlds and frees the new contributotrs from the need to > set up git-send-email(1), for example, if they prefer not to. > > That's pretty much the same as what GitGitGadget [3] already allows, > which Git uses as an option for submitting patches. I've always truly > loved GitGitGadget's presence as an option, because it keeps the > mailing lists as the primary workflow, while it removes the proverbial > entry barrier for the contributors who actually prefer to use pull > requests. To phrase it a bit differently, variety is the proverbial > spice of life. I agree that GGG fixes the "new contributor" issue. But, that's the less important part of this experiment IMO. -- Arsen Arsenović
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