[Labs-l] Bots project is too permissive, let's discuss options

Sun Dec 16 01:24:51 UTC 2012

On 16/12/12 01:09, DeltaQuad Wikipedia wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I am a toolserver user who is trying to switch over to
> labs) Excuse my n00bness here, but when we talk about "need to be in a
> git repo" is a repo on github a workable answer for it? Or do I need
> another Labs based repo that I have no clue how to do and need to go
> around asking for documentation or spending several hours trying to
> figure out myself? Personally I would really like to see documentation
> all set out for this before changes are actually made, because otherwise
> you leave us who 1) don't completely understand the project 2) don't
> know *nix based OSes that well. It seems to be more of a bureaucratic
> hoop than anything. I know we are trying to protect users files here,
> and it's sad that something like someone files get erased, but do we
> have to make it more difficult for everyone, or can we find another
> solution. As for gerrit, I honestly have no clue how to use it, and I
> can usually understand interfaces pretty fast...this one was very
> confusing esp. since I don't know the difference between git and gerrit.
> And honestly I don't want to spend another several hours learning that,
> esp. over my Christmas break.

gerrit is like github. It's a place for managing git repositories,
although oriented to code review (while github is oriented to clones).

I haven't seen the script used by Ryan, but it probably works with github.