Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

Jason Merrill via Gdb
2024-04-23T03:52:01Z

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:

> Jason> Someone mentioned earlier that gerrit was previously tried
> Jason> unsuccessfully.
>
> We tried it and gdb and then abandoned it. We tried to integrate it
> into the traditional gdb development style, having it send email to
> gdb-patches. I found these somewhat hard to read and in the end we
> agreed not to use it.
>
> I've come around again to thinking we should probably abandon email
> instead. For me the main benefit is that gerrit has patch tracking,
> unlike our current system, where losing patches is fairly routine.
>

Indeed. Though Patchwork is another option for patch tracking, that glibc
seem to be having success with.

Jason> I think this is a common pattern in GCC at least: someone has an
> Jason> idea for a workflow improvement, and gets it working, but it
> Jason> isn't widely adopted.
>
> It essentially has to be mandated, IMO.
>
> For GCC this seems somewhat harder since the community is larger, so
> there's more people to convince.
>

Absolutely, but now with the office hours it seems more feasible to build
momentum (or see that there isn't enough support) without having to wait
until Cauldron.

Jason