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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Maris Fogels<maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09-08-09 04:29 PM, Tom Berger wrote:
>>
>> http://changelog.complete.org/archives/1123-free-software-project-hosting
>>
>> The author is surveying several "project hosting" solutions.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ...
>
>> Launchpad does let you “import” branches from another VCS such as Git
>> or svn. I set up an “import” branch for a test project yesterday. 12
>> hours later, it still hasn’t imported anything; it’s just sitting at
>> “pending review.” I have no idea if it ever will, or why setting up a
>> bzr branch requires no review but a git branch requires review. So I
>> am unable to test the integration between it and the changesets, which
>> is really annoying.
>>
>> So, some possibilities here, but the bzr-only thing really bugs me.
>> And having to have my git trees reviewed really goes against the
>> “quick and simple” project setup that I would have preferred to see.
>> ...
>
> That's a pity - our current policy is to automatically approve git source
> imports, since we can safely assume that they will work.
>
> (Note that we review CVS and SVN imports because they often do *not* work
> out of the box.)
>
> Can we change the vcs-import code so that it automatically approves Git
> imports?  It would improve the user experience.
>

We should automatically approve all of them. To support this properly
though, we need a report of failing imports.

It's not hard, but it's yet another thing.

jml