Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 7/8/17 2:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It's actually more than that: patches submitted to Emacs need to
> conform to our coding and various other standards: include
> properly-formatted commit log messages, documentation, and (where
> appropriate) tests, etc.  Patch review could require cleanup changes
> etc.

That doesn't negate the advantages of integrated solutions like GitLab, 
though. Emacs is not the only project with standards.

We often enforce those via code review, and GitLab helps with that.

> People who find this too much of an effort should perhaps describe
> their solution without showing any actual code, so that someone else
> could implement it.

Relatedly, a friendlier bug tracker would go a long way as well.