Re: [edk2-announce] March Community Meeting Minutes

[Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>]

On 3/11/19 4:20 PM, stephano wrote:

> On 3/11/2019 1:55 PM, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>
>> You can't see without following the pull request *who* committed the 
>> change.  There are almost 1000 open pull requests, which is something 
>> we probably want to try and avoid. They also seem to have _lots_ of 
>> labels. I wonder if there's a cleaner way of handling them?
>
> Agreed. We spoke about some of the downsides of pull requests in the 
> last stewards meeting. Linus did a fair job of detailing some of these 
> here:
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
>
> I'm going to work with EDK II maintainers to be sure that we do not 
> move to a model that makes their life harder (e.g. 1000 open pull 
> requests).
>
>>
>>
>> Also, about groups.io, I wonder if I might want to investigate their 
>> support for using our own domain, so people don't have to remember 
>> that the mailing list and documents are on groups.io and not 
>> tianocore.org?
>>
>
> Yes, I'm hoping to use our own domain with groups.io. Once we've 
> completed the testing phase I'll bring this up to my boss(es) to get 
> approval for an enterprise account ($200/month). That will allow us to 
> use something more friendly with tianocore.org.


Thanks! Sorry for the skepticism, I've just had experiences in the past 
with new systems being introduced which made work more difficult (e.g. a 
commercial code review tool: several teams avoided it by using Review 
Board or Gerrit instead).


-- 
Rebecca Cran