Re: GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

["Simon Ka*gstro\"m" <simon.kagstrom-vI6UBbBVNY+JA8cjQkG2/g@public.gmane.org>]

On 2015-05-01 17:56, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> I believe the DPDK community would benefit from moving to GitHub as the
> primary DPDK site. http://github.com
> [...]

While I'm really mostly a DPDK outsider, I'd like to express my support
for this suggestion. For my part, I'm mostly interested in the general
development discussion on dpdk-dev, not details about changes in e.g.,
the i40 PMD code. Architecture discussions, usage questions etc tend to
get drowned in an endless flow of patches.

>   - GitHub has a per pull request discussions area, which gives a clean
> way to review all discussions on a specific change.

... and I think this is one of the great features of github. For an
example on how discussions on merge requests can look, take a look at
e.g., one of the rust-lang merge requests:

  https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25058#discussion_r29548050

which shows nice git commit links, discussions about relevant parts of
the commits, automatic test results etc. Bug reports also get very
nicely integrated into the workflow.


I used to be more of a command-line guy, but I'm starting to see the
benefits of the github way of doing things, and I think it would be a
nice improvement for DPDK to start using it as well.

// Simon