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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
	Claudio Bantaloukas <claudio.bantaloukas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: Considerations on a gitlab-style forge
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:23:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240411222324.GA12335@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e164cb4-6385-4c2a-b916-3d9631844d87@arm.com>

Hi -

> Thank you for answering, I've been trying to come up with a high level
> reason why something about those forges is desirable to people like me
> and the best I could come up with is this.
> 
> Having a single place where a developer can see:
> [...]
> - any code review comments their fellow developers may have

Yeah, that seems to be the main benefit, easier than email threads.

> - whether these changes are likely to break things for others

That's hard to know unless you share code & inter-merge, which is not
automatic in web-forge type systems, and can be done via personal or
development branches in the current system too.

> - what others are working on

(You cannot know that. :-)

> - that doesn't feel like Donald Norman's proverbial teapot!

No comment!

- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-11 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-09  9:35 Claudio Bantaloukas
2024-04-10 13:57 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-11 13:17   ` Claudio Bantaloukas
2024-04-11 22:23     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2024-04-12 17:37       ` Claudio Bantaloukas

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