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Re: Steward opinions on gerrit?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:47:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: Steward opinions on gerrit?
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> As stewards for glibc I wanted to ask each of you if you had
> any opinions on gerrit, and thoughts on or the fundamental
> requirements of a review system for a project like glibc.
>
> Joseph,
>
> You write and review a lot of patches. Does using gerrit
> interest you? Does it solve any problems?
I'm not convinced the experiment is advanced enough to tell whether it
helps much. The main problem I see patch review systems as being for is
to track changes that are under consideration but not yet approved, and
it's hard to judge when there are only a few changes in there. (I suspect
any system would gradually accumulate patches that were submitted by
one-off contributors, issues raised, but never revised and never
definitively rejected either.)
There's potential for various kinds of CI integration with patch tracking,
but I don't think we've tried that.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com