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

Sun Dec 16 08:53:37 UTC 2012

Tried https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ ?

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]

On 12-12-15 9:11 PM, Hazard-SJ wrote:
> I agree with DeltaQuad. I'm not entirely familiar with those systems
> myself. I've tried to get Git working on my computer (Windows 7) some
> time ago, but couldn't get the version control aspect to work (and
> maybe some other problems too). I actually eventually decided to give
> up and spend my valuable time on other things, and up to now, I find
> that I still have many things to do otherwise. I used the Git page on
> MediaWiki wiki and even seeked help in #mediawiki, but am still in
> this condition.
>
>  
> Hazard-SJ
>
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> *From:* Platonides <platonides at gmail.com>
> *To:* Wikimedia Labs <labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:24 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Labs-l] Bots project is too permissive, let's discuss
> options
>
> 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.
>
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