What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 1/25/14 11:52 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:26:30AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 1/25/14 9:51 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:57:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>> On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote:
>>>>> On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>>> (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that
>>>>>> makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.)
>>>>> github itself is closed source, but 95% of its functionality is based
>>>>> on git which is open. One only needs to invoke 3-4 git operations to
>>>>> support what it does on the website side. Register on the site, fork
>>>>> the project under user's login, submit a pull request, merge a fork's
>>>>> branch to the main branch. All these are basically git commands.
>>>>> Without the glossiness of github, this is not that large of a project.
>>>>> Submitters will do the rest through git.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, instead of tediously going through the PRs by hand, it is
>>>>> wiser to set up some system like this.
>>>>>
>>>> Agreed.   +1000
>>>>
>>>> Although if we go down the rabbit hole of building something "like
>>>> github" that might take a while.  For now prototyping using the github
>>>> pull methods might be a good proof of concept.  I may look into doing a
>>>> github pull request -> GNATS (src) PR gateway if time allows.
>>> Once again github pull request is the worst way of merging patches that exists.
>>>
>>> We already have problem with ugly and inaccurate logs, such pull request will
>>> make it even worse.
>>>
>>> Making proper merge from github pull request it not that easy, you will need to
>>> fetch pull request as custom branches and cherry-pick them. That is really not
>>> convenient.
>> Probably a dozen lines of shell.
>>
> Actually no: add this to your git config file
>
> fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
>
> Then all the pull request will be seen as branches you can safely cherry-pick.
>
Yes I know that...

-Alfred