Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans

Richard Earnshaw (lists) via Gdb
2024-04-23T09:31:42Z

On 23/04/2024 04:24, Tom Tromey 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.
>
> 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

I've been forced to use gerrit occasionally. I hate it. No, I LOATHE it. The UI is anything but intuitive with features hidden behind unobvious selections. IMO It's not a tool for a casual developer, which makes it a bad introduction to developing software.

R.