Reviewing in progress work on Github

Jonathan Aquilina jaquilina at eagleeyet.net
Thu Jun 5 08:52:07 UTC 2014


When you create the pull request you can give a description as to what the
pull request is about hence you can mention Work In Progress. The only
people that would get bombarded with these emails would be those that have
developer access in the sense of being able to commit the pull requests

> Can't you just create a new Pull request when it is finally ready?
>
> John
> =:->
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Ian Booth <ian.booth at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the many things I miss now that we have moved to Github/git is
>> the
>> ability to put up a merge proposal with in-progress work, allowing
>> collaboration
>> on the implementation as it evolves etc. Launchpad supported this
>> nicely,
>> as it
>> didn't spam people with emails for wip mps etc.
>>
>> I don't think Github supports this concept. Perhaps a way around it is
>> to
>> do a
>> pull request against one's forked copy of the main Juju repo. That way,
>> people
>> can still easily see your work, but without the general spam. Sadly, it
>> doesn't
>> allow the pull request to then be re-targetted to the Juju repo when
>> ready
>> to be
>> reviewed for real. Or does it?
>>
>> Does anyone have any better ideas how to do this?
>>
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