[Mesa-dev] Thoughts after hitting 100 merge requests?

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 11:38:05 PM PST Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 10:57 -0600, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > The mesa project has now hit 100 merge requests (36 are still open). 
> > I (and I'm sure others) would be curious to hear people's initial
> > thoughts on the process.  What's working well?  What's not working? 
> > Is it total fail and should we go back to mailing lists?
> > 
> 
> So, overall I think it works pretty well. I have some things I think
> maybe we could do better, some of which has already been pointed out:
> 
> 1. New MRs should probably get their cover-letter automatically sent to
> the mailing list for incrased visibility.
> 
> 2. Perhaps we should ban sending MRs from the main mesa repo? With
> gitlab, it's trivial to make your own fork, and you can delegate
> permissions to other users for collaborators. I don't think there's any
> reason to clutter up the main mesa repo with all kinds of branches. But
> it seems some people send their MRs from the main-repo anyway. Perhaps
> we should document that this isn't how to send MRs?

I agree, I would much rather see MRs sent from personal forks.
That's what I've been doing, and it works well.  If you see people
doing that, feel free to say something - I assume they just don't
realize they can do that.

--Ken
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