what do people think of the idea of taking our `co...
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
11/04/2020, 11:09 PMwhat do people think of the idea of taking our
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11/04/2020, 11:09 PMI was thinking about this in the context of having pants control more of its own build process
hundreds-breakfast-49010
11/04/2020, 11:09 PMbut also that particular bit of functionality might be broadly useful to people
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hundreds-father-404
11/04/2020, 11:13 PMI suspect probably too special cased to publish it. We generally want to think critically about the functionality we commit to publicly supporting
But that sounds reasonable to make it an internal plugin! If anything, good exercise in dogfooding
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hundreds-breakfast-49010
11/04/2020, 11:15 PMyeah, specialized functionality that we only need for building pants itself should be an internal plugin. but specifically printing the list of people who contributed to code in a repo in the past while is the sort of thing that does strike me as general enough to be useful to other people
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hundreds-father-404
11/04/2020, 11:16 PMIf it was opt-in, via a new backend, it could be useful. So long as users have an ergonomic way to disable it if they have no use
But I wonder what else might go into that backend. Imo, that’s a good hint to what we should do. I know a good feature for Pants would be adding ownership of specific files, that pants can say who is assigned to this and you can set up CI to notify those people
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jolly-midnight-72759
11/05/2020, 12:31 AMAre you talking about something like a
watchersjolly-midnight-72759
11/05/2020, 12:38 AMWasn’t there a “far dreaming” talk at the PantsBuild Conference ‘19 in Las Vegas about pants leaning into the
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