Thanks Guozhang. Cherry-picking also occurred to me sometime after I sent the email and I agree that it's useful functionality.
Do I understand correctly that you are suggesting a script for cherry-picking after the pull request has been merged? We could explore this, but not sure it would add much over plain `git cherry-pick` for typical AK usage. Given that, I am tempted to just allow both the current merge script and the GitHub UI to be used. And after a period of a few weeks/months, we can look at improvements based on actual experience. How does that sound? Ismael On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Guozhang Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ismael for initiating this discussion. I am in favor for adopting > Gitbox for its clean improvements since many of us have shared the pain of > managing PRs for long time. > > About this potential downsides, subjectively I feel these two arguments are > quite handle-able. The only concern I had about cherry-picking to other > branches, which is a very common usage of the script tool we used today. So > I'd suggest simplifying that script to help with cherry-picking (currently > we only do up-stream cherry-picking, but we could also consider allow both > upstream and downstream cherry-picking) than completely discard it. > > > Guozhang > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Ismael Juma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > One thing I forgot to mention, many projects have requested and been > using > > GitBox for a while: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15271?jql= > > project%20%3D%20INFRA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C% > > 20Closed)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20GitBox%20ORDER%20BY% > > 20updated%20DESC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC > > > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Ismael Juma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The Apache Infra team has started a new project earlier this year > called > > > GitBox that supports two-way synchronization between GitHub and > > > git-wip-us.apache.org and, most importantly, provides GitHub write > > access > > > to committers. GitBox is not generally available yet, but individual > > > projects can ask to be migrated. > > > > > > I think we should migrate kafka and kafka-site to GitBox. The main > > benefit > > > is that pull request management will be hugely improved for committers: > > > > > > 1. Reviewers functionality will become available > > > > > > 2. Pull requests will be assignable to GitHub users > > > > > > 3. We will be able to assign labels to issues > > > > > > 4. We will be able to merge pull requests directly via GitHub instead > of > > > using the merge script > > > > > > 5. Committers will be able to close old and stale PRs > > > > > > 6. We will be able to use protected branches to restrict merges via > > GitHub > > > to only be allowed if tests pass and the PR has been approved by at > least > > > one committer > > > > > > A couple of potential downsides: > > > > > > 1. To avoid weird behaviour (even though two way synchronization > exists), > > > we'd want all committers to always push to GitHub, but this won't be > > > enforced. That is, git-wip-us.apache.org will still be writable. Given > > > the small number of active committers, this seems to be a minor issue. > > > > > > 2. If we decide to drop the merge script in favour of GitHub, some of > the > > > functionality will have to be done manually. GitHub supports "squash > and > > > merge" via the UI, so the main things that will have to be done > manually > > > are (1) Ensuring that the commit message follows the right format (2) > > Close > > > the JIRA ticket. I think this is OK, but we could allow both options > > (merge > > > and GitHub UI). If we want to allow both options, we'd just change the > > > default push repository in the script to be GitHub. > > > > > > All in all, I think this is a clear improvement and fixes a lot of the > > > pull request management pain points we've been facing. Given that, I'd > > like > > > to move quickly, if possible. > > > > > > Please share your thoughts below and if people are in favour, I'll > start > > a > > > vote. > > > > > > Ismael > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
