Call for participation: github pull request

How to actually get karma to manage those pull request in github?

I know what you mean. I've been sitting on a patch I did for an RFC for
awhile now because I don't have karma to post it. I know I could just add
to the pull request queue but I'd much rather put a few more together first
so I can convince the powers that be to grant me the karma so I can push
them myself. Unfortunately, there are no clearly established standards for
this that I'm aware of at least, so it's kinda hard to set a concrete goal
there. So for me at least, it winds-up getting nudged more to the
backburner for me. It's hard to get motivated when all you can do is fling
your hard work into the ether and wait for someone else to maybe eventually
pull it in.

PHP is meant to be a meritocracy and I think that's the right way to go.
That said, if the backlog is this big, perhaps we should consider putting
together a more explicit policy outlining the requirements for having
various levels of karma granted. The ad hoc "judgement call" approach
works up to a point, but when a certain critical mass is reached, it
becomes less and less adequate IMNSHO.

--Kris

We have recenty discussed a lot of new language features and RFC while our
github pull requests are continously growing without getting pulled. We
have 74 open pull request.

So this is a clal for participation in helping to wingle those numbers
down. If you have karma and can review open changes please feel free to
merge them. It's very unfortune that we have so many open patches not
processed.

How to actually get karma to manage those pull request in github?

Everybody with an github account can comment.

As the setup is a bit fragile (i.e. clicking the "pull" button will pull
in the mirrored repository, which will cause trouble on next push from
git.php.net) we don't handout the "PHP membership" on github too
frequently (just trying to have enough to be able to act on issues
quickly and avoiding "bus factor" issues)

Everybody with a php.net account can use https://qa.php.net/pulls/ to
comment on pull requests or closing them.

johannes

We have recenty discussed a lot of new language features and RFC while
our
github pull requests are continously growing without getting pulled. We
have 74 open pull request.

So this is a clal for participation in helping to wingle those numbers
down. If you have karma and can review open changes please feel free to
merge them. It's very unfortune that we have so many open patches not
processed.

How to actually get karma to manage those pull request in github?

Ask David or Johannes, but it seems we are strict on handing out that
karma, because it would screw up the mirroring if somebody accepts a pull
request through the github interface (instead of merging and pushing
through git.php.net)

--
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu