Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-09 Thread Ihor Kalnytskyi
Brett Cannon wrote: > Because other core devs wanted a linear history. This preference was very > strong to the point people were willing to forgo the Merge button in > GitHub's web UI to enforce it until GitHub added the squash merge support > for the Merge button. Actually, there's a third optio

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-09 Thread Maciej Szulik
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Victor Stinner > wrote: > > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I > > would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the > > "author" and "committer" fields. If

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 15:04 Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-02-08 23:42 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon : > > Don't forget we are doing squash merges, > > Ah, I didn't know. Why not using merges? > Because other core devs wanted a linear history. This preference was very strong to the point people were will

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Sven R. Kunze
On 09.02.2017 00:03, Victor Stinner wrote: 2017-02-08 23:42 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon : Don't forget we are doing squash merges, Ah, I didn't know. Why not using merges? Same question here. I see no benefit just overhead, mistakes and longer processes. Sven _

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-02-08 23:42 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon : > Don't forget we are doing squash merges, Ah, I didn't know. Why not using merges? Victor ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 13:33 Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-02-08 21:32 GMT+01:00 Terry Reedy : > > Many patches have multiple authors. Does the 'author' field allow that? > > Often, the committer adds missing chunks or rewrites the work with > various > > degrees of editing. Sometimes a read a pat

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-02-08 21:32 GMT+01:00 Terry Reedy : > Many patches have multiple authors. Does the 'author' field allow that? > Often, the committer adds missing chunks or rewrites the work with various > degrees of editing. Sometimes a read a patch for the idea and then start > fresh with the actual code.

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 12:33 Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/8/2017 2:38 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I > > would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the > > "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/8/2017 2:38 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to the real author, the one who proposed the change on the bug t

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-08 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at 23:38 Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-02-08 8:35 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > > I'm sure the patch author would appreciate it, but I don't think we > > need to require it as we have gone this long without it. > > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I > would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to use the > "author" and "committer" fields. If the author is set to the real > author, the one who proposed the c

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-02-08 8:35 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > I'm sure the patch author would appreciate it, but I don't think we > need to require it as we have gone this long without it. I know that different people have different expectation on GitHub. I would like to take the opportunity of migrating to Git to

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Victor Stinner
(Oops, I wrote privately to Brett, so he replied me in private. So here is a copy of our emails.) Brett Cannon via gmail.com On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at 13:42 Victor Stinner wrote: > > If I push a patch file written by someone else, should I try to use the > author full name + email? I'm sure the pat

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at 11:17 Jim F.Hilliard wrote: > That's great, congratulations! I believe this change will make it way > easier for people to get involved! > > A small question, since people can now submit new issues via pulls instead > of going to bugs.python.org, what will be the purpose of

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Stephane Wirtel via Python-Dev
Nice, good news. On 02/07, Brett Cannon wrote: To let the non-core devs know, the GitHub migration will be happening this Friday. For those of you who use the current GitHub mirror to create patches, do be aware that the hashes will most likely be changing so don't expect your checkout to work

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Jim F.Hilliard
That's great, congratulations! I believe this change will make it way easier for people to get involved! A small question, since people can now submit new issues via pulls instead of going to bugs.python.org, what will be the purpose of the latter? As I skimmed through cpython-devguide.readthedoc

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Jelle Zijlstra
2017-02-07 10:03 GMT-08:00 Brett Cannon : > To let the non-core devs know, the GitHub migration will be happening this > Friday. For those of you who use the current GitHub mirror to create > patches, do be aware that the hashes will most likely be changing so don't > expect your checkout to work

[Python-Dev] GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

2017-02-07 Thread Brett Cannon
To let the non-core devs know, the GitHub migration will be happening this Friday. For those of you who use the current GitHub mirror to create patches, do be aware that the hashes will most likely be changing so don't expect your checkout to work past Thursday (you can always generate a patch and