Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

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.

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.

Tom