On Sat, 18 Apr 2026, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
Op 18-4-2026 om 16:08 schreef Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel:
It is about MR from 3rd party.
My point was that since we have gitlab, the merging of user
contributions
goes way faster than the SVN+Mantis procedure, where we had to
download and apply patches manually. Anyone denying that is denying
the light of the sun.
Still that is different than the proposal.
It is not.
My point is your math doesn't add up even for the main list, and the
whole release angle is even more far fetched.
Let's get back to releasing, how many of those merge requests have you
merged to fixes?
For lack of an agreed procedure, none obviously.
That's the whole reason why I'm proposing a schedule that IMO would help.
Given the amount of work I do on MRs, if I can flag and later or
immediatly merge MRs to a fixes branch, it would be a huge time saver.
So maybe 50 of your MRs apply,
Since I am the one doing the work, I think I'm better placed to judge:
It will be more than 400, I assure you.
I'll be mild: The day when you reached 200 merged MRs, we'll talk again.
Maybe at that point you'll have enough experience with it to accurately
judge the advantages it brings (or not).
That is /mild/ in your book? After having done 75% plus of all merging
since FPC 2.0.4 ? Maybe 20000+ revisions or more?
Wait: I was in no way diminishing your work on SVN. Far from it.
I was talking solely about MR's you handled in gitlab. 7 is a too fow to
form a good opinion. I do more than 7 every week at work. And I worked with
svn as an integrator at work for 14 years, I worked longer with FPC on svn
(albeit not as integrator).
So I think I'm (currently) in a better position than you to judge the
advantage of gitlab.
I'm just saying that you should maybe try to appreciate what gitlab has on
offer. Judging from aside, I can only say that you've opposed git and gitlab
from
the start and that you've never given the tool the chance it IMO deserves.
Michael.
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