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Comment · 2 months ago
1. It's explained in the README [1]. Tl;dr: Maiao is a "remote, sparsely populated volcanic atoll in French Polynesia"
2. I don't think so. The main difference from maiao to other stacked diffs projects is that it _progressively enhances_ GitHub. At the end of the day you just get PRs with branch #3 -> branch #2 -> branch #1 -> main. So, a bit of automation and rebases to do this. Because teams rarely can choose their forge, the intent is to not force org-wide change — e.g., change the VCS to jj — nor introduce more API/UI surface. You can be the only one doing stacked diffs in your team. Nothing breaks.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hi! Maintainer here :) I think some projects already try that. The main goal of maiao is to progressively enhance GitHub with stacked PRs (1 commit = 1 PR) and create as little new API/UI surface as possible. That's why we don't have a `maiao new stack` command. Everything just runs atop normal git with a bit of `git rebase` and automation around GitHub's API. I hope it clarifies the intent.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm not familiar with jujutsu. Maiao is fully git-compatible and the idea is to
a) Not create new API/commands on top of it. Everything works with the normal "git commit".
b) Progressively enhance the user experience. Each commit becomes a PR stacked atop each other. It auto-rebases if the base changes, and so on.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hi! Maintainer here.
In short: maiao supported stacked PRs on GH, before it existed as a feature :) Now that it's exists (beta), it simply does "progressive enhancement" and adds the PRs to the native stack. But you could still perfectly function without it. That's how maiao works on Codeberg, and Bitbucket, for instance.
GiLab has an interesting approach where they auto-stack up until 20 Merge Requests, if they're chained.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hi! One of maiao's maintainers here, and ex-Adevinta.
tl;dr: Adevinta got bought by a Private Equity consortium [1]. Since then, the fund did many changes, and layoffs. All of the original creators/maintainers don't work there anymore.
Runetes is just an umbrella org for some OSS we created there.
1 - https://adevinta.com/press-releases/permira-and-blackstone-a...
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