Re: Development suggestions from an ENSIME developer

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/21/2016 11:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > Also, I think the solution should support text-mode browsers, such as
> > Lynx or Emacs's eww on TTY frames.  IOW, anything that requires GUI
> > and won't work otherwise is probably out of question to begin with.
> > (This requirement is not for me personally.)
>
> Hopefully a pull-request can appear as a Git branch, so the maintainer
> who can't or doesn't want to use a browser can use "git diff/merge" and
> such to view and accept a pull-request.

There is always a branch associated with the request, yes. And also, 
when you merge the branch using the command line and push, that closes 
the pull/merge request automatically.

(BTW, in Gitlab parlance these are called "merge requests", not "pull 
requests", since, unlike on Github, the branch-to-merge is always in the 
same repository).

> To review/comment on a pull-request, you'll need something else, and
> typically this is a web UI.  Most/all of those are pretty much unusable in
> something like eww/lynx.  But there's a good chance someone can code up
> an ad-hoc Emacs interface to the system (something like sx.el).

A brief search of existing projects points to 
https://github.com/nlamirault/emacs-gitlab.

It doesn't seem to support commenting on pull requests so far, though, 
and we might have to add a "standard" UI instead of ones using Helm or Ivy.