[flashrom] Proposed changes to flashrom hosting and workflow
Nico Huber
nico.h at gmx.de
Sat Jan 2 16:07:23 CET 2016
On 31.12.2015 19:18, Stefan Tauner wrote:
>> For those who missed it on IRC, Stefan (Reinauer) has proposed retiring SVN
>> and patch work in favor of Git and (likely) Gerrit + Jenkins. Maintaining
>> SVN and Patchwork represents a surprisingly large maintenance burden on top
>> of Git and Gerrit that coreboot uses. Additionally, many in the community
>> work around SVN's limitations by mirroring the project at places like
>> Github anyway.
>
> My counterproposal is to use gitub instead of Gerrit.
> - I really can't stand gerrit's interface.
> - We (relatively) often get patches from one-time contributors which
> is way easier on github because "everybody" has an account there and
> knows how to work with it (and if not it is straight forward
> compared to gerrit).
I don't think one-time contributors always have a github account. Also,
in most cases (I might be wrong here), one-time contributors don't care
much about a review, so we could just forward their patches to gerrit.
Can we not?
> - The only reason to avoid github for me would be due to its
> proprietary nature and related problems (lock-in etc).
> Please give me other reasons if you prefer coreboot.org-hosted
> gerrit over github.
>
Just speaking for myself here. Also I might have a github account I
can't remember right now, my contributions to flashrom would be less
if I have to adapt to another (non-gerrit) workflow. Just a prediction,
I don't even like gerrit.
Nico
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