Sorry I've been delayed, as we needed to get this patch operational in
order to possibly have Revision.thank() as part of the Thanks project.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/192539/

Are there any other patches around which attempt to make Revision an
entity that can have methods that perform API queries?

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 1:13 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would appreciate it if people gave me a few days before abandoning
> all my patches.
>
> I will be rotating back onto pywikibot next week, as I am mentoring a
> Pywikibot GSOC project, and will start to go through my patches.
>
> Also, the other thread about developing a roadmap is a very good idea.
> That will help people with large sets of stale patches to work out
> what needs to be worked on first.
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> On the recent hackathon in Vienna we talked about the large number of
>> changes still open and how to get the flow back. We currently have over 300
>> open changes going back to 2014 (
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:pywikibot/core ). A
>> change is in Gerrit because the developer wants code review to get it
>> merged. Code review might not be a lot of fun and this is made worse by this
>> huge backlog.
>> A lot of the changes have issues preventing this:
>> * Merge conflict, needs to be rebased
>> * Not verified, tests fail
>> * Code review -1, -2
>> My proposal is to abandon the changes we're not going to work on anyway and
>> focus our attention on the changes we do want to get merged. I understand
>> that some changes in which people invested a lot of time and effort will get
>> abandoned, but I think the benefit of getting the code review process back
>> on track is higher. Abandoned changes are not gone, we can always open them
>> again.
>>
>> I ask everyone who has (a lot of) old open changes to have a look at them
>> and make the decision: Pick it up or abandon. If the change is linked to a
>> phabricator task, it would be nice to update the task too.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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> John Vandenberg



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