"mc is over!?" - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site
Volodymyr Buell
vbuell at gmail.com
Sat May 30 13:41:11 UTC 2015
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 08:23 -0400, Volodymyr Buell wrote:
> >
> > That's the reason to decommission existing infrastructure asap - you
> > pay for the things that work against your productivity.
>
> I've heard this before, and you still haven't explained how it works
> against *my* productivity, or the productivity of Andrew.
>
I was referring to productivity of the team as a whole.
And if you want to hear an explanation, here is this:
* the process of code reviewing is non transparent enough for the community
- attaching the patches to the tickets and reviewing these patches is not
the same as pull requests
* people tend to use the tools if they are good. If there are few options -
hack the project on github and hack another project on trac - I'd say
majority will choose the github
I personally couldn't do much else in 1 hour per week that I'm spending
> on it anyways. Andrew likes it and it does make him productive: check
> the git log if you need statistics. Do you think that if the tracker is
> migrated to Github, I will magically be able to review 500 tickets in
> this 1 hour per week or what?
>
You did get me wrong. I'm not saying about your personal productivity.
Sorry for miscommunication. There are lot of people saying that dvc is bad
because they used to share their work by sending *.patch files and they
don't need anything else. Does that mean that it works well for other team
members? I'd say no.
What I meant is that it's much easier to work with PRs instead of patch
files. It's easier for community to help to review these requests. It's
easy to newcomers to get to it...
>
> A valid reason for moving in my opinion would be to reduce reliance on
> privately owned stuff, and I have been slowly working in this direction,
> and hope to take it further in the future, but other than that, I see no
> other reasons currently to do so.
>
> On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 08:23 -0400, Volodymyr Buell wrote:
> > I see that you not so interested in migration as you didn't answer my
> > question in private.
>
> It's not just a matter of interest; realistically, I can scrap up to 5
> hours per week for mc, which means process the mailing list ~2 times per
> week; processing huge emails full of very questionable content by some
> posters takes hours, so there we are. I saw your mails among others, and
> I'll try to reply tomorrow.
>
> Now in what concerns the interest, yes, it is low. For once I
> wholeheartedly agree with Oswald. There need to be some very important
> advantage in the migration, and if we go for it, it should be done
> properly.
>
> One advantage could be that person X steps up and shows enough
> commitment to prepare a migration like Slava did, and which was later
> completed by Oswald. He also declares it as a pre-requisite for him
> taking over and investing serious time in the project.
>
> Under these circumstances, I can stick my own (very negative) opinion of
> Github issue tracker somewhere deep down, and accept that the tools are
> chosen by those people who do the real work. If they like Github issues
> and they make them productive, so be it.
>
> But I don't buy unsubstantiated arguments about magical community of
> productive and qualified members appearing out of nowhere, and doing
> quality code review over large spans of time. Instead, what will happen
> is that Github issue tracker will become just as dead swamp of issues
> and patches, as Trac has become now. I've been part of too many
> projects, and I know how successful open source projects work: there is
> a lot happening behind the scenes.
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev
>
>
>
--
Thanks,
Volodymyr
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