Re: Reviews on mailing-list

From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2012, 01:13 UTC
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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Deniz Türkoglu <deniz@spotify.com> wrote:
>
>> This is my first mail to the git mailing list. I have been following
>> the list for some time now and I would like to suggest moving the
>> reviews out of the mailing list, for example to a gerrit instance, I
>> believe it would improve the commits and the mailing list. I have a
>> filter on 'PATCH', but I feel I miss some of the discussion, and
>> things that I would be interested in.
>>
>> I have spoken to Shawn Pearce (gerrit project lead, google) and he
>> said he is OK with hosting the gerrit instance.
>>
>> I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> Personally I think reviews on the mailing list is far superior than
> any other review methods. I've even blogged about it and all the
> reasons[1]. Gerrit is better than bugzilla, but it still requires a
> web browser, and logging in.
>

Requiring a web browser is a huge requirement, ham?? How come that can be an impediment to move forward way of this awkward way of reviewing patches through email? Switching to Gerrit would mean everyone would be using the same tool instead of anyone using its own email client (gmail, mutt, thunderbird, whatever...) and having to figure out git format-patch, git send-email (--reply-to where?).

There are a lot of issues of having to use email for reviewing patches that I think Gerrit is a superior alternative.

And many people are arguing for it!

Let's move on...