Re: Reviews on mailing-list

> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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...