Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-23 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, December 19, 2014 23:26:15 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 18 de desembre de 2014, a les 14:52:12, Sebastian Kügler va > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 08:47:09 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > > I understood that to be the case -- I'm really meaning for a general, > > > KDE-wide solut

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-20 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dissabte, 20 de desembre de 2014, a les 02:08:53, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:12:05 Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some > >> protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches fo

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-19 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2014-12-19 22:08 GMT-03:00 Kevin Kofler : > Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:12:05 Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some >>> protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches for >>> instance). Note that courtesy of t

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:12:05 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some >> protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches for >> instance). Note that courtesy of the backup functionality in our >> hooks, no bran

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-19 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 18 de desembre de 2014, a les 14:52:12, Sebastian Kügler va escriure: > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 08:47:09 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > I understood that to be the case -- I'm really meaning for a general, > > KDE-wide solution. > > > > Personally I don't have an issue with volunteer

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-19 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 18 Dec 2014, at 8:52, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 08:47:09 Jeff Mitchell wrote: I understood that to be the case -- I'm really meaning for a general, KDE-wide solution. Personally I don't have an issue with volunteers taking care of non-official systems if it hel

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:12:05 Ben Cooksley wrote: > For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some > protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches for > instance). Note that courtesy of the backup functionality in our > hooks, no branch or tag is ever truly delete

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-18 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:52:12 CEST, Sebastian Kügler wrote: Of course it would be prudent to give KDE's sysadmin's access at some point, but it's not required per se. Hi, that's been always the case, all sysadmins have root access, and they also have the "admin" role within Gerrit.

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-18 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 08:47:09 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > I understood that to be the case -- I'm really meaning for a general, > KDE-wide solution. > > Personally I don't have an issue with volunteers taking care of > non-official systems if it helps their productivity. If Gerrit wasn't

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-17 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 17 Dec 2014, at 6:01, Jan Kundrát wrote: Hi Jeff, thanks for a very reasonable mail, I don't have much to add to it in general, except for one item: But it's not reasonable to expect the sysadmins to support multiple parallel systems Maybe there is a misunderstanding of some kind -- I do

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-17 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi Jeff, thanks for a very reasonable mail, I don't have much to add to it in general, except for one item: But it's not reasonable to expect the sysadmins to support multiple parallel systems Maybe there is a misunderstanding of some kind -- I do not expect sysadmins to take care of a syste

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-16 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote: > Hi Ben, Hi Jan, > >> It isn't just >> the tool itself which has to be maintained: we have commit hooks, >> integration with other bits of infrastructure and so forth which also >> needs to both be implemented and maintained. > > > In case of

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-16 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Don't want to weigh in on Gerrit as I don't know it well enough, but as for Phabricator, Ben may have forgotten but we did evaluate it a while back. It was neat but had a very serious problem: you needed an account to even view anything (no public access), and once you got into it everything wa

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-16 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 12 Dec 2014, at 17:25, Luca Beltrame wrote: Albert Astals Cid wrote: So what do you suggest, because we already tried gitlab and didn't work, is there any more github clones out there that may work for us? I don't There are at least a couple: - Gitbucket (written in Scala, mimics the Gi

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Kundrát
Hi Ben, It isn't just the tool itself which has to be maintained: we have commit hooks, integration with other bits of infrastructure and so forth which also needs to both be implemented and maintained. In case of Gerrit, there is no need for custom hooks as they stay on git.kde.org, and ther

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-16 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Monday, 15 December 2014 22:25:37 CEST, Kevin Kofler wrote: That creates the situation that "we either all switch and have uniformity or we don't and then we end up with reviewborad+gerrit" (Albert Astals Cid), which to me sounds a lot like blackmail (of course not by Albert, he's just the m

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Ben Cooksley
Hi all, Going to reply to all the various bits and pieces that have been mentioned in order now. Apologies for the long mail. For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches for instance). Note that courtesy of the backup func

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Klapetek wrote: > Our very own manifesto, which we've established not so long ago, does not > dictate that a project must be kf5 or kdelibs based application to be > considered a KDE project. But there *is* an expectation that the projects use KDE infrastructure, so the implication in "I a

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 15 de desembre de 2014, a les 10:48:16, Milian Wolff va escriure: > On Saturday 13 December 2014 18:13:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dissabte, 13 de desembre de 2014, a les 13:46:24, Jan Kundrát va > > escriure: > > > On Friday, 12 December 2014 22:44:39 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wr

Re: Fwd: Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Jan Kundrát wrote: >> - Apache Allura > Also, loading a list of commits took tens of second at the time I tried it > :(. IIRC, I think Allura was just proposed once or twice, without much follow up (but I'm the least knowledgeable person here. ;) [kallithea] > able to find two of them in total

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > looks like a pretty cool system. the command line integration (arc) is > quite nice and powerful. I re-read the docs and I guess I got confused by the many modules it is made up of. I'll look into installing it on my own HW during the holidays, to see how it goes (after

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote: > On Monday, 15 December 2014 10:46:03 CEST, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> Yeah. Wikimedia just switched to it for bug tracking. More will follow. > > > My understanding of the reason behind this switch is that they are PHP > programmers, so they

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > It also puts the discussion about a possible switch to gerrit in a weird > > situaion since we either all switch and have uniformity or we don't and > > then we end up with reviewborad+gerrit :/ > > Or we just st

Re: Fwd: Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Monday, 15 December 2014 07:34:24 CEST, Luca Beltrame wrote: - Apache Allura https://allura.apache.org/ That is said to support pull requests, but I wasn't able to find an example of that in their website. Got one? Also, loading a list of commits took tens of second at the time I tried it

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Monday, 15 December 2014 10:46:03 CEST, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Yeah. Wikimedia just switched to it for bug tracking. More will follow. My understanding of the reason behind this switch is that they are PHP programmers, so they prefer to work with software written in PHP, Made my life as

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Milian Wolff
On Saturday 13 December 2014 18:13:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dissabte, 13 de desembre de 2014, a les 13:46:24, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > > On Friday, 12 December 2014 22:44:39 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > >> That's very different from saying "whole KDE should just > > >> switch to Ge

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Dec 15, 2014 10:24 AM, "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > On Monday, December 15, 2014 10.02:47 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > Just as a datapoint: phabricator is what blender is using now: > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Tools/Phabricator > > and many more (and larger): > > http://e

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, December 15, 2014 10.02:47 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > Just as a datapoint: phabricator is what blender is using now: > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Tools/Phabricator and many more (and larger): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator#Users looks like a pretty cool

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Luca Beltrame wrote: In data sabato 13 dicembre 2014 08:21:15, hai scritto: We had three ones on plate: - Phabricator http://phabricator.org/ https://github.com/phacility/phabricator I think I've taken a look at that, but it was way too complex than what I could handle:

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
In data sabato 13 dicembre 2014 08:21:15, hai scritto: > We had three ones on plate: > - Phabricator > http://phabricator.org/ > https://github.com/phacility/phabricator I think I've taken a look at that, but it was way too complex than what I could handle: I have no idea if it fits KDE's needs

Fwd: Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Sending this to k-c-d, probably has been sent to me only by mistake: it offers additional insights on software. - Messaggio inoltrato - Oggetto: Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure Data: sabato 13 dicembre 2014, 08:21:15 Da: Helio Chissini de Castro A: Luca Beltrame

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-15 Thread Luca Beltrame
Kevin Kofler wrote: Hello Kevin, > wants to use Gerrit. (It's not even a KF5 or kdelibs application, but a > Qt-only one.) Then he can use whatever tools he wants. Problem solved. As Aleix said already, this does not help the discussion in any way. I can see, even if I'm far from being an exper

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-14 Thread Aleix Pol
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> It also puts the discussion about a possible switch to gerrit in a weird >> situaion since we either all switch and have uniformity or we don't and >> then we end up with reviewborad+gerrit :/ > > Or we just stop th

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Albert Astals Cid wrote: > It also puts the discussion about a possible switch to gerrit in a weird > situaion since we either all switch and have uniformity or we don't and > then we end up with reviewborad+gerrit :/ Or we just stop the Gerrit experiment in the core KDE projects as a failure (it

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dissabte, 13 de desembre de 2014, a les 13:46:24, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > On Friday, 12 December 2014 22:44:39 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > >> That's very different from saying "whole KDE should just > >> switch to Gerrit", and I'm not proposing that. Some people have made > >> themselves

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Friday, 12 December 2014 22:44:39 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: That's very different from saying "whole KDE should just switch to Gerrit", and I'm not proposing that. Some people have made themselves clear that no change is going to happen, and I can live with that. Where was that discusse

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Luca Beltrame
Albert Astals Cid wrote: > So what do you suggest, because we already tried gitlab and didn't work, > is there any more github clones out there that may work for us? I don't There are at least a couple: - Gitbucket (written in Scala, mimics the GitHub interface) - Gogs (written in Go, see my pre

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Christian Mollekopf
On Wednesday 10 December 2014 16.53:09 Jan Kundrát wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 10:28:59 CEST, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > > * pull requests/the webinterface: reviewboard is awesome for single > > patches > > every now and then, it's rather useless when you work with > > branches IMO. W

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Luca Beltrame
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Hello Aaron, > is a goal[1], then it would make a lot of sense to orchestrate a move to > something that provides such a "github-like" experience, even if it has > other drawbacks. Those drawbacks probably don't matter as much. If they See my reply to Christian to see where

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-13 Thread Christian Mollekopf
On Wednesday 10 December 2014 15.27:31 Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > It has come to my attention that some developers have "issues" with > KDE infrastructure in certain areas. This is the first time i've heard > of these "problems" and to my knowledge nobody has ever spoken to > sysadmin regar

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Divendres, 12 de desembre de 2014, a les 11:27:24, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure: > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 23.23:59 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dijous, 11 de desembre de 2014, a les 07:48:51, Aaron J. Seigo va > > escriure: > > > individual learning curves is just not very attractive

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Divendres, 12 de desembre de 2014, a les 01:16:14, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > On Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:20:59 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > You need to understand understand though that changing patch > > review systems is > > not your decision to take (nor mine), we need to have a g

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, December 11, 2014 23.23:59 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 11 de desembre de 2014, a les 07:48:51, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure: > > individual learning curves is just not very attractive when Github sits > > there shiny and usable. > > and siloed and non-free. Indeed, and unfor

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-11 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:20:59 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: You need to understand understand though that changing patch review systems is not your decision to take (nor mine), we need to have a general agreement/consensus when changing systems as important. Changing systems is not

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-11 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 11 de desembre de 2014, a les 07:48:51, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure: > On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 15.27:31 Ben Cooksley wrote: > > It has come to my attention that some developers have "issues" with > > KDE infrastructure in certain areas. This is the first time i've heard > > I sus

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-11 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 11 de desembre de 2014, a les 01:18:57, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > Anyway, I know that pre-Gerrit proccess was so painful for me that I > actually decided to invest dozens of hours of my time into this, and get > the Gerrit + CI ball rolling, and I'm not really willing to go back into >

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-11 Thread Ivan Čukić
> Yyou need to setup git correctly, so that "gerrit" in that command is >> valid, >> > > I see what you're saying, and you're probably right -- there's a bar, > indeed. That bar could however be effectively removed by having a > spoonfeeding, > An alternative to the setup documentation is to actua

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 15.27:31 Ben Cooksley wrote: > It has come to my attention that some developers have "issues" with > KDE infrastructure in certain areas. This is the first time i've heard I suspect the issues are the same ones that led us to experiment with gitlab a while back. Ch

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Thursday, 11 December 2014 00:51:28 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: Yes, it is harder. Yyou need to setup git correctly, so that "gerrit" in that command is valid, you need to understand you're pushing to a different server than the "real" one, you need to commit (i never do format-patch, j

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 11 de desembre de 2014, a les 00:41:56, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:41:31 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > D is really important to me since it makes it harder to contribute to non > > hardcore git users; it took me days to start understanding Qt's > >

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:41:31 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote: D is really important to me since it makes it harder to contribute to non hardcore git users; it took me days to start understanding Qt's gerrit and i am still not sure i understand it fully, with reviewboard i do git diff a

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Luigi Toscano
Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > > I see some problems with gerrit: > [...] > > D) There's no way to create a review without using relatively unfriendly > gerrit process > > [...] > > D is really important to me since it makes it harder to contribute to non > hardcore git users; it took me da

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 10 de desembre de 2014, a les 16:53:09, Jan Kundrát va escriure: > On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 10:28:59 CEST, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > > * pull requests/the webinterface: reviewboard is awesome for single > > patches > > every now and then, it's rather useless when you work with

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 10:28:59 CEST, Christian Mollekopf wrote: * pull requests/the webinterface: reviewboard is awesome for single patches every now and then, it's rather useless when you work with branches IMO. With github we have a nice webinterface to review branches while keeping

Re: [Kde-pim] Problems with infrastructure

2014-12-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
[I love our infrastructure, just this bit triggered my reply-to-email reflex] On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:28:59 Christian Mollekopf wrote: > * deleting branches: This is the only major gripe I have with the kde > infrastructure. I think everyone should be able to delete branches (except >