Tim Peters wrote: > [Brett Cannon br...@python.org] > > We probably need to update https://devguide.python.org/committing/ > > to > > have a step-by-step list of how to make a merge works and how to > > handle backports instead of the wall of text that we have. (It's already > > outdated anyway, e.g. Misc/ACKS really isn't important as git itself > > records the author of the commit and so that can be used with > > Misc/ACKS for old commits to gather the list of folks who have" > > contributed.) > > Don't put too much weight on my screwups ;-) I was appalled to hear > that the OP's contribution was still sitting unmerged, and was in a > hurry to resolve that at a time I _had_ no significant time to give to > it.
Sure, but I and I hope everyone else here wants to make the dev process as easy as possible so that more people help out regardless of their comfort with git so that PRs are dealt with fast enough none of us become appalled. ;) So the fact you had any struggles suggests there is room for improvement, even if the docs say "click the green button and if miss-islington says something happened then come to python-committers for help". > Mariatta and Terry Reedy finished up what I left undone, so in the end > it's all good :-) > And there's a problem with the GitHub workflow docs that may be unique > to me: we have helpful layers of automation, but they're shortening a > git workflow I don't understand even without the automation. With the > automation, I'm just doubly clueless. > That's because I'm old. My capacity to give a rip about source > control system quirks was apparently entirely used up when I spent > several weeks mastering the intricacies of Mercurial. Try as I might, > I just haven't been able to force myself to become competent with git. > It's not that I disapprove of git! It's apparently more that we're > each born with a finite capacity for being _able_ to learn Yet Another > New Source Control System, and mine was used up on YANSCS #8 ;-) > aging-isn't-for-the-optimistic-ly y;rs - tim Yeah, but I still want your filled brain to be able to use our workflow to help put you to work. ;) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/DP2QF6YUZS42WVIWHHNMRJVH7RQKEIC7/
