On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Tomas Junnonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/27/2010 11:19 PM, ext Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> >>>> Sorry for the delayed response, but I completely agree with this for a >>>> number of reasons. We have to keep in mind that much of the development >>>> actually needs to go upstream. The vast majority of the code in MeeGo >>>> comes directly from upstream. Yes, we do have some patches and other >>>> items that _are_ MeeGo specific, but that needs to be the very >>>> infrequent exception and not the rule. >>> >>> Can anyone name a single other Linux distribution that does patch review >>> on a mailing list? I can't think of one. >>> >>> linux, qemu, ffmpeg and vlc are all single projects rather than >>> aggregations of hundreds of packages. Different community, different >>> needs. >> >> pretty much all distributions try to do their development in the >> upstream projects instead. >> MeeGo is a bit weird there sometimes.... > > There's a large set of software at http://meego.gitorious.org/ for which > MeeGo is the upstream.
Can you give examples of this large set of software? > Some if it already uses the Gitorious code review > tool, but it's not particularly good. An official Review Board service would > be useful. Yes, but there are other reasons, that I outline on my blog post[1]. Cheers. [1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/why-bugzilla-sucks-for-handling-patches/ -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
