ethpull

An ethereum-powered pull request system.

Documentation TODO:

Describe technical roadmap and how code could be tied to a smart contract.
How can third-party version controls rely on Ethereum to act as an DAO in order to accept merge/pull requests?

Development TODO:

Provide a landing page so that an organization can retrieve a repository to a smart contract.
Defer initialization of smart contract in app.js to after an organization selects the repository or a new smart contract is deployed.

Plan

Original idea: since merge/pull requests are sometimes a source of contention, I plan to build a decentralized voting system that takes advantage of third-party version control systems in order to approve merge/pull requests.

Secondary idea: Display repository issues and submit proposals in order to vote and handle the issues.

Lock the issue for voting.
Contributors submit their proposals.
Issue gets assigned to the contributor with the winning proposal.

Ideas:

Original Idea

Merge request could be completed once voting is done and some conditions are met.
- Conditions:
  - Past repository contributors have a stake in voting.
  - The merge request doesn't complete once team members have voted or a specified time has ended.
A merge request acts as a proposal, which is in the form of an ethereum transaction, and other members can vote in support or against the proposal.
Have JS code call the voting proposal and initialize a merge request using a Github API

Issues Idea

From a landing page, a user would submit an applicable repository.
Load the issues for the selected repository.
User will select the issue to view.
Once the issue is selected, a list of current proposals will appear.
Voting on proposals proceed with a user having to submit a transaction on a proposal.
New proposals could be submitted with a transaction.