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On 19.09.2014 03:32, David Cheney wrote:
> There were three problem reviewboard was supposed to address,
> review comments are sent immediately, no side by side diffs, and no
> way to to chained proposals.
> 
> I think that over the last few months we've all learnt to live
> with the first issue
> 
> On the second, github now does nice side by side diffs.
> 
> On the third, it appears reviewboard leaves you solidly to your
> own devices to implement chained proposals.
> 
> I'm with Jesse, I vote to stop using reviewboard, I don't think
> it's paying it's way.
+1, Due to all the steps you need (to automate) in order to post the
review correctly, you're on your own w.r.t. chained diffs, finally the
annoying web UI win non-obvious and ways of doing things; I'm a bit
disappointed at what RB brings more than just using GitHub PRs.

> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Jesse Meek
> <jesse.m...@canonical.com> wrote:
>> We moved to GitHub in the hope of lowering the bar to
>> contributors outside the team. GitHub is *the* platform and
>> process for open source software. This was the logic behind the
>> move. It was deemed to have the most mindshare and we sacrificed
>> our prefered platform and process to be part of that mindshare.
>> 
>> We are now leaving that 'main stream' process to something that
>> suits the tastes of our team - ReviewBoard. This adds friction
>> for new contributors (friction everyone has experienced this
>> week). If we value our preferred methods of reviewing over
>> keeping to a well known process for outside contributors, the
>> best process was launchpad + rietveld. Shouldn't we simply return
>> to that.
>> 
>> Considering we have been successfully using GitHub for several
>> months now, using reviewboard is not a necessity. Obviously, I
>> will go with whatever the team decides, but I'm concerned that we
>> have moved to reviewboard without considering that it undermines
>> (as far as I can see) our primary reason for using GitHub.
>> 
>> Jess
>> 
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