[m-rev.] Handling pull requests

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:39:12 +1100, Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> > I think the bit that needs discussion is how we do code reviews now that
>> > we're using git and github.  What I'd like to acheive here is a way that any
>> > of us can do code reviews, with any tools we like (eg vim and diff/patch or
>> > github or git & vim).  And that the process should be simple regardless of
>> > which tools we want to use.  Eg: I do not want to "force" github usage onto
>> > anyone.
>>
>> The existing process, i.e. send the log message + patch to the mailing list,
>> is fine IMO.
>
> Agreed.  That pull request emails don't contain the diff is a huge step
> backwards.  Email + vim is better than any web interface.
>
> Non-core developers may prefer to send pull requests, but their changes
> won't likely be very big anyway so not much to review.

That's fine.  One of us can post the diffs corresponding to the pull
request to the
list.  (Most of the pull requests I've seen so far certainly require
some discussion.)

Cheers,
Julien.