From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122223 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2019 22:47:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 122213 invoked by uid 89); 27 Nov 2019 22:47:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=judge, H*f:sk:8c2b7a9, H*MI:sk:8c2b7a9, H*i:sk:8c2b7a9 X-HELO: esa3.mentor.iphmx.com IronPort-SDR: G4gwYkZ7/yOxv+xqqApKBbMB44KOTEj8R9P2W1r/7pps9K2Zh9YQ3lyygyqNyyU++3T4nHswAU uM9xcg9qQF3IkDdYGv5sEvcMCypZcHRyew0eWL1TrgeLo080oXKlorLf1nDhdmIC7KI41qkYFm XwgOq18kjtFmPsawsmVWDknSEQFsMUAvYDEcBplMRapc7NP69CW9XFhPuXCd55ziVTHQbZFBAi hZgxgTn8HsCxQBeSvTS/gnMDwTjMCcabYrDxC7P6Mw6H7nq/5HHVrkDKZiCf45YKMiyuspgA7H iDI= IronPort-SDR: aFpTP87V9S2QrsMg9c0HoAqSfs07u1v1BywfZPb3XIJt9ZR0LYmckbcN3gTpBQKMrpPsAJcDkQ ad2GvliN3ojA1Qyu3f0yhYX39hdc3b+mOzKcfGRHNZ/imPnBp/76DO47+DM08Bgxd1lIRdsEiR hIFBtLzVSK9jIhFaD3nxVUtoV7Bc/r7++JqD44upqXTPcrOkCoBS1hDI5haJL54W0HATC3eXQl 771y9g6gHHv5Shjm8EQWaMhexhbCAdCO3wJ3K32oYW+obzLRl5K4fH+6P7rnUwZDiwP3NkvxIk guM= Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:47:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Carlos O'Donell CC: Andreas Schwab , libc-alpha , Paul Eggert Subject: Re: Steward opinions on gerrit? In-Reply-To: <8c2b7a9d-adfc-813c-eeb0-634409fe917f@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <8c2b7a9d-adfc-813c-eeb0-634409fe917f@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-Path: joseph@codesourcery.com X-SW-Source: 2019-11/txt/msg00951.txt.bz2 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