On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 3:13 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <
f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:02 AM Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since the coreboot team moved the OpenBIOS project onto Github, there have been a
> number of steadily increasing pull requests and issues raised there and so I'm
> wondering if now is the time to start thinking about moving to a more Github-based
> workflow.
Why GitHub and not GitLab?
Good question. Because that is where the code already lives, so it is a minimal change for everybody So if you want to suggest that to change, the question might be:
Why GitLab and not GitHub?
> The nice thing about Github is that we can start to put together some CI to allow
> build testing of PRs and open potential review to people outside of the OpenBIOS
> mailing list. However there are a number of very knowledgeable people on this mailing
> list who have helped with the project over the years and I am really keen to maintain
> the benefit of their expertise.
I'm pretty sure some 'bots' exist that can send PR patches via email
to the list.
Yes we can do this I'm pretty sure.
Personally I find the Web-UI review process awkward (besides most of the time
I do review I'm offline), and hard to grep (instead of an email archive).
Yes, particularly the github work flow is a bit cumbersome, at least if you're not used to it initially.
On the positive side, you can always download pull requests to your git tree to test and review locally.
Also it makes it harder for blind developers to contribute, but I
think git forge
projects are trying to catch up there.
There is a github command line client that might help with this.
Anyway we all have to adapt, and I agree using git forges help to reach another
audience (as long as it doesn't kick out the current one).
CI is certainly a big win.
Yes, this can really change our quality in the long run.
> On this basis I would like to propose the following changes:
>
> 1) Move to a merge request workflow and start accepting PRs from Github
>
> 2) Add the openbios@openbios.org mailing list automatically to Github PRs
> and Issues so people on the mailing can take part in the discussions.
> Note: this is currently VERY low volume.
>
> 3) Implement a basic Github workflow using the QEMU project cross-compiler
> docker images to enable build testing and artifact generation without
> requiring a cross-compiler to be built manually. (I've already tried a few
> experiments and made some progress here).
This sounds great!
>
> Any further thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
If we're making infrastructure changes, do we want to switch from MediaWiki to a different solution for the web page?
(And we should do a release, the last release update on the web page was 8 years ago)
Stefan