Exploration: Investigate Graphite developer tool 🔭

joshgamache commented 7 months ago

Overview

Investigate Graphite as a tool to assist with having more developers in a single repository.

Tasks

[x] Answer questions
[x] Prepare presentation for Developer Team Aggrements (5-10 minutes)
[x] Present and discuss in Developer Team Agreements meeting

Questions to answer & Objectives

[x] Will it assist in having multiple applications (registration, reporting) in a single repo?
[x] Will it speed up developer time-to-PR?
[x] Will it speed up PR review time?
[x] Will it speed up PR submission to merge time?
[x] How easy is it to integrate into our existing Git process?
[x] What is the overhead/learning curve to adopt it?
[x] Will everyone need to adopt it? Will partial adoption be a benefit or a roadblock?
[x] What existing processes will need to be added to?
[x] What existing processes will need to be changed?

Additional context

Graphite is a developer tool layered on top of Git and GitHub. It allows for the use of the Stacking workflow, which compliments our existing single-trunk/rebasing workflow. This workflow is free, but the platform also has merge queue functionality which is paid (amongst other features).

joshgamache commented 7 months ago

Research documentation is in sharepoint here: https://bcgov.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/00608-ScrumTeam/EXV8PIZakPhDkI4NSmpTrzAB5iDRs_i_nEHpklri_A_Csw?e=y8uvqN

A demo video has been uploaded into Stream : https://bcgov-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/joshua_gamache_gov_bc_ca/EVzykiOx5CpKqD_nk8J9OvQBeJjlxAw0pYk55H6RWOa5lQ?e=cGvzOe

joshgamache commented 6 months ago

Due to pricing, we will likely not adopt this tool as a whole group. However, we have a other options we could explore if we want to adopt a Git stacking pattern.

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