[mythtv] Pull requests sufficient?

[Paul Gardiner]

On 05/05/2012 11:38, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2012 11:01:25 Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 05/05/2012 10:27, Stuart Morgan wrote:
>>> You need to open a ticket as well. Most devs don't read pull requests on
>>> github, especially not since we're no longer committing direct to
>>> github. For tracking and accounting purposes we prefer to have
>>> everything in one place.
>>
>> Just out of interest, what is your committing procedure now if no
>> longer direct to github?
>
> We're back to using our own server which achieves a much better uptime than
> github.
>
> Github has never been especially reliable, they had more than their fair share
> of hardware/software faults and they are also a magnet for DDOS and hack
> attacks which  sometimes left our repo inaccessible for hours. Added to that
> their post-commit hooks would regularly fail to fire meaning tickets didn't
> get automatically closed and commit emails were never sent.
>
> At least when our server _does_ go down we have some control and aren't left
> hanging.

I see. Ok. Thanks for the info. I guess github gets updated every now
and then, and so isn't wildly out of date for casual developers.

Cheers,
	Paul.