Re: Migrate away from vger to GitHub or (on-premise) GitLab?

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> Given the open nature of lore it should be feasible to provide
>> additional interfaces on top of it that cater to people used to PRs
>> on popular forge web UIs without hijacking the whole project and the
>> existing tools and interfaces. For some reason people are set on
>> replacing it as a whole, and removing the interfaces they personally
>> don't use,
> 
>> calling them obosolete.
>> 
> because they positively *are*.
> 
> when i started, patch-based code reviews were the norm, and i'm still
> using them for my small project with almost no external contributions.
> 
> 
> but after working with gerrit code review for over a decade, i find it
> mind-boggling that people are still voluntarily subjecting themselves
> to mail-based reviews for serious high-volume work.
> 
> it doesn't matter just how super-proficient you got with your old
> tools.  there is just no way you'll get anywhere near as efficient as
> you would with the new ones, if you just were interested enough to
> learn them.  migrating the workflows that are worth keeping isn't such
> a bit deal.

> i'll note that i don't consider github-like forges to be adequate
> tools for serious work, as they seem to intentionally discourage
> producing polished commits.
> the gerrit project is unfortunately not interested in building a
> proper forge, but luckily there is a bridge to github (hosted version
> available at gerrithub.io).