[Qgis-developer] Pull request responsibility

[Marco Hugentobler]

Wow, github support is really fast. So it seems I just have to add a 
comment 'assigned to @developer' as a ping.

Regards,
Marco

>Hey Marco,
>
>A simple change to this workflow which would trigger a notification would be to ping the developer using an @mention in a comment. We use this internally all the time at GitHub, which works very well for us.
>
>Hope that helps.



On 06.09.2013 10:12, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi
>
>> Marco is looking for an option to enable these notifications. In case
>> there's nothing I think we should open a ticket on github's github page
>
> I didn't find out how to enable pull request assign notifications. Now 
> I've sent a support request to github, let's see if they reply.
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
>
> On 05.09.2013 18:15, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> Hi Larry
>>
>> On Don 05 Sep 2013 18:11:44 CEST, Larry Shaffer wrote:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch
>>> <mailto:matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi,
>>>
>>>      The last couple of months, (almost?) every pull request has a core
>>>      developer assigned. I personally think, the idea is good to make
>>>      somebody responsible for the pull request (who can pass it on if
>>>      required of course) so they don't get forgotten.
>>>
>>>      However, I just found a pull request which is assigned to me and I
>>>      didn't realize before. Same happened already several times, when
>>>      asking
>>>      an assigned developer about the status, he normally didn't know 
>>> about
>>>      his assignment. At the same time, others will hesitate from taking
>>>      care
>>>      of a pull request assigned to somebody else.
>>>
>>>
>>> Very important to get those notifications. To this end, I added a pull
>>> request and assigned it to you (feel free to close or commit it).
>>> Please verify you are receiving the notification that I assigned it to
>>> you.
>> I already verified with Marco, and he got no verification, and I didn't
>> either.
>>
>> Marco is looking for an option to enable these notifications. In case
>> there's nothing I think we should open a ticket on github's github page
>> (I just guess there is one :-) )
>> I shortly checked, the information would be present in the github API,
>> but honestly, we got enough issues to solve in our software.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      Now, I guess somebody is assigning these? Is this done by any
>>>      criteria?
>>>      And has somebody found a solution to get notifications about
>>>      assignments
>>>      or have a list of one's assigned pull requests? Is there a plan
>>>      for the
>>>      process of pull requests, so they don't just pile up until we 
>>> totally
>>>      loose the overview?
>>>
>>>      Matthias
>>>
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
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