On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:42 PM, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> > > The experience from Weston shows that the Gitlab merge request based workflow > works really well. Recently there have also been issues with the mailing list > that have made the email based workflow more painful than it used to be. Those > issues might have been temporary or occasional, but they probably are only > going to increase. > > The MR workflow is different, it has its issues > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/74) and we > likely lose the explicit Reviewed-by etc. tags from commit messages, but it is > also much easier to work with: no more whitespace damaged patches, lost email, > setting up git-send-email; we gain automated CI before any human reviewer even > looks at anything, and people can jump in to an ongoing discussion even if > they > weren't subscribed before. > > If you still want email, you can subscribe to that selectively(!) in Gitlab > yourself. > > This text has been copied from Weston's CONTRIBUTING.md of the 5.0.91 release > and slightly altered for Wayland. > > Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/49 > > Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>
This seems to make it easier and friendlier for maintainers to review and merge patches. I think this is pretty important. The CI integration is also a big win. Reviewed-by: Simon Ser <[email protected]> Thanks! _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
