Eclipse has a GUI, and it's really helpful to develop GUIs using a tool
which allows inline images. GitHub PRs and issues work really well together.
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:27 AM Mickael Istria <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Let's capture the main parts of the discussion at
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Migration_To_GitHub so we can
> more easily plan action here.
>
> I'm personally in favor of the eventual move to GitHub, despite my huge
> love and respect for Gerrit. However, I think we should wait for the
> "contributing to an Eclipse.org project via GitHub" contribution flow to
> become nicer, typically when we can get rid of the Signed-Off-By
> requirement and when any user has a few clicks operation to sign the ECA
> from GitHub pull requests.
>
> As mentioned on other threads, I believe we should stick to bugzilla for
> issues: GitHub issue tracker is a weak, messy, ugly-after-3-comments, hard
> to navigate... tool. I'm using it for a few projects much smaller than
> Platform and don't find it as productive as Bugzilla. I've participated to
> some discussions on bigger projects (VSCode and others) and found that the
> lack of semantic relationship (depends/requires/duplicates...) pollutes the
> discussions and forces to read 40 comments just to find the right link to a
> requirement.
>
> About the CI, any volunteer should start writing the necessary GitHub
> actions and/or Jenkinsfile to get builds triggered against GitHub Pull
> Requests. If this files are demonstrated to work well (eg on some cloned
> repo), then we could consider adding them already inside the repositories
> as a preliminary step...
>
> Once we have the requirements identified and covered, we may be able to
> progressively move 1 repo after the other as soon as project is ready. I'd
> advise starting by evaluating for instance migration of PDE to GitHub: what
> needs to be changed for this to fully work all along the release process?
>
> Cheers,
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