#general
- r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 10:59 PMhave we ever considered moving to a code review system thats more tightly integrated with github and pull requests? was surprised to learn that we pay $$$ monthly for rbcommons - someone on twitter told me about https://www.gitcolony.com to me over the weekend and thought I’d mention it. seems like there are several parties attempting to solve the “github PR code review sorta sucks” problem - and I’d love to see a more streamlined workflow vs the PR+RB dance we do today. - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:02 PMditto - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:02 PMWe've bandied about idea of phabricator and gerrit (sp?) too - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:02 PMI think most people would be happy to see an alternative to RB if it met our needs - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:03 PMah, nice. there’s a small faction of folks who are attempting to replace RB with phab internally. - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:03 PMyeah - may be something to keep an eye out for if we hear about cool emerging solutions. gitcolony looks pretty good in the screenshots, but no live demo. - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:04 PMI'm wary of new things, as always - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:05 PMPhab has lots of problems, but they're mostly perf problems that probably wouldn't affect pants too muh - w
witty-crayon-22786
01/25/2016, 11:05 PM"was surprised to learn that we pay $$$ monthly for rbcommons" - heh, yes. - w
witty-crayon-22786
01/25/2016, 11:06 PMand un-hosted Phab would mean hosting a database, which is its own brand of excitement. - w
witty-crayon-22786
01/25/2016, 11:06 PM(even, presumably, with rds) - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:08 PMthere is a hosted phab (and a whole commercial company backing it and phabricator development, apparently): http://phacility.com/ - w
witty-crayon-22786
01/25/2016, 11:11 PMinteresting. - a
adorable-glass-89507
01/25/2016, 11:24 PMwhat are the benefits of those over using github for code review? - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:24 PMThe benefit of not using github is generally that you don't get ten trillion emails per review - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:25 PMyeah, and github CR leaves ALOT to be desired - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:25 PMyou can’t comment on a range of lines for example - r
rough-minister-58256
01/25/2016, 11:25 PMseveral other UX issues - j
jolly-chef-92794
01/25/2016, 11:29 PMI really like the incremental diffs that RB does. - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:29 PMPhab has something equivalent - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:30 PMbut yeah, the problem with RB seems to be that while it's good (enough, anyway), it's crazy expensive - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:31 PMI have to assume because they know Twitter is footing the bill and has infinitely deep pockets - w
witty-crayon-22786
01/25/2016, 11:32 PMlol - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:33 PMIt's also somewhat awkward that it's the last piece of our infrastructure that's entirely twitter owned with no way (that I know of) to safely grant non-twitter core pants devs admin privs - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:40 PMProbably something we should address at this next summit is actually starting the process of getting together whatever legal tools we need to in order to accept money from the major orgs and spend it from our own bank account - b
bored-art-40741
01/25/2016, 11:40 PMI just hope "become an apache project" isn't the solution - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
01/26/2016, 12:54 AM@bored-art-40741: is there a particular problem with apache projects or are you just hoping we have other options as well? - r
rough-minister-58256
01/26/2016, 12:58 AM“apache pants” sorta has a nice ring to it - b
bored-art-40741
01/26/2016, 1:01 AMI've just never had a good experience with an apache project - b
bored-art-40741
01/26/2016, 1:01 AMAnd moreover I'm just philosophically opposed to adding process and governance when there aren't standing grievances that actually need to be mediated