On 4/25/12 8:11 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote:
>
> On Apr 25, 2012, at 7:18 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Except for the big changes like NA and datetime, I think the debate is
>> pretty boring.
>> The main problem that I see for discussing technical issues is whether
>> there are many
>> developers really interested in commenting on code and coding.
>> I think it mostly comes down to the discussion on tickets or pull requests.
>
> This is a very insightful comment.   Github has been a great thing for both 
> NumPy and SciPy.   However, it has changed the community feel for many 
> because these pull request discussions don't happen on this list.
>
> You have to comment on a pull request to get notified of future comments or 
> changes.    The process is actually pretty nice, but it does mean you can't 
> just hang out watching this list.  You have to look at the pull requests and 
> get involved there.
>
> It would be nice if every pull request created a message to this list.    Is 
> that even possible?

Sure.  Github has a pretty extensive hook system that can notify (via 
hitting a URL) about lots of events.

https://github.com/blog/964-all-of-the-hooks

http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/

I haven't actually used it (just read the docs), so I may be mistaken...

Thanks,

Jason
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