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["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Olof,

> I just added at comment at that page.
> 
> I found the interface quite clear.
> 
> I already have an LP-account and public SSH key there, so out 
> of the suggestions so far I like this way the most.

OK
 
> My experience of LP so far has been great; there are some 
> really good tutorials out there. The hardest step was the 
> SSH-key-step, which I hadn't done before, but even that was 
> easy. We could provide a guide at the NUnit wiki with links 
> to tutorials on LP usage.

Maybe a step-by-step guide to everything you need to do to
get started on Launchpad.
 
> Disclaimer: I've done LP/bzr under Ubuntu, which is closely 
> related to LP/Canonical so it might be the easiest OS to get 
> things going at. It might be harder in Windows.
> 
> Charlie, is it hard to setup public key+SSH communication and 
> bzr in Windows?

Well, it's the same setup as for Sourceforge but it actually
works on my laptop! I've never succeeded in using CVS on
Sourceforge from my XP laptop. We'll have to see how it
works from Vista!

Charlie
 
> 2009/8/15 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just went on line and voted in favor of my own change. :-)
> >
> > I like the online review screen, which gives diffs in a 
> nice format. 
> > This seems to make it worthwhile to go through the effort 
> of getting 
> > them into Launchpad.
> >
> > Just got an email notification with my friendly comment, so 
> it looks 
> > like the two interfaces (email and web) interoperate.
> >
> > It's not clear to me if others who are not on the 
> nunit-core team are 
> > allowed to review it. Somebody please go here and try it out:
> >
> > 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~charlie.poole/nunit-2.5/merge/+merge/10197
> >
> > One thing I'm not clear on: How do we decide that the 
> voting is over 
> > and we're applying the change? Or not? Of course the policy 
> is up to 
> > us, but does Launchpad need to be told? Does Launchpad do 
> anything or 
> > does a committer have to take action?
> > (I'm guessing the latter, but hoping Paul will tell us for sure.)
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nunit-dev-bounces+charlie=nunit.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:nunit-dev-bounces+charlie=nunit.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> t] On Behalf Of Charlie Poole
> >> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:48 PM
> >> To: nunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [Nunit-dev] Review of Changes
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I experimented with sending a merge directive to the 
> launchpad merge 
> >> address: merge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as Paul suggested.
> >>
> >> The Core Developers team got the review request by 
> default, but I can 
> >> see how to change it so all of you get it. I have attached 
> what was 
> >> sent to us so everyone can see what it looks like.
> >>
> >> I gather that the reviews can be made by email or on the 
> web site. I 
> >> assume that we need to use email if we want to actually 
> discuss the 
> >> fix. Paul, can you confirm?
> >>
> >> I found a few drawbacks to this approach.
> >>
> >> 1. I had to try a number of times, making several changes to 
> >> locations.conf and bazaar.conf before I got it right. It's really 
> >> easy once you have it set up correctly, but I don't 
> consider myself a 
> >> slouch at such things and if it took me a while it may 
> totally stop 
> >> some potential contributors.
> >>
> >> 2. You must sign your email with your GPG key. This is not 
> something 
> >> most windows developers are set up to do so there is a bit of a 
> >> learning curve. Using Outlook, the only way I could figure 
> out to get 
> >> my email signed was via the clipboard.
> >> I believe that voting via email also requires a GPG key.
> >>
> >> One thing we could try to do is give step by step 
> instructions about 
> >> how to configure and how to use GPG. Some of this is already 
> >> available, but it's not always clear how a Windows user 
> does it - and 
> >> most of our potential developers are in the world of windows.
> >>
> >> The alternatives - I guess - to this approach are...
> >>
> >> 1. Just send a simple patch to the dev list and let somebody else 
> >> figure it out. This may be the best for the complete newbie.
> >>
> >> 2. Push your branch to Launchpad and then propose it for 
> merging via 
> >> the web site. This requires that you have an SSH client 
> and key set 
> >> up, which is yet another step, but people may already have 
> this from 
> >> using Sourceforge or some other site.
> >>
> >> I'm looking for some ideas on this. How should we start out?
> >> What direction should we try to take it?
> >>
> >> Charlie
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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