On Friday 23 January 2015 15:21:34 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Milian Wolff wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I started this page just now: > > > > https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/FutureInfrastructure > > > > It's pretty limited, so far. I hope everyone could help out and extend it > > and fill it with the information and verify that each contestant is > > displayed in a fair light. Please add links, comments etc. pp. wherever > > possible. > Hm... That matrix needs a heck of a lot of work before it's worth spending > time on. It perpetuates the illusion that phabricator and gerrit are > equivalents, which isn't true.
Yes, that's the whole point of the matrix. If they would be equivalent, then we wouldn't need to compare anything. > Gerrit is just a kind of reviewboard with a git integration, phabricator > is a whole integrated development platform. No, this is not true. Gerrit can do a heck more than reviewboard. See the matrix and re-read the discussion and the mails from Jan. > And, apart from detail-by-detail comparisons, gerrit would be an > exceedingly bad choice for a community like KDE, with its enormous > diversity of skill levels. Gerrit is uninviting and complicated. Say what? Please, let us keep this discussion technical. > There is no way an artist who has a nice patch for Krita is ever going to > be able to inducted into becoming a Krita developer if they have to follow > instructions like this: > > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Gerrit > > Even reviewboard works better for that. There is even a gerrit plugin to upload patches via the web interface. So your "argument" is invalid here. > Honestly, this discussion is misguided. I'm sure there are people who like > gerrit as a tool, probably influenced by the fact that gerrit is used by > the Qt project, and we have a history of doing what the Qt project does. > > But gerrit is not the answer to the question "what should our future > infrastructure be", because it's only a replacement for reviewboard. *Sigh*... No! -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de
