On Monday, January 05, 2015 23:53:02 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > I'm just trying to make clear that reviewboard is a crappy tool inciting > people to write crappy reviews that drive people away. Apart from any > other nonsense about cultural differences (the standard cop-out from > Dutchmen and Germans -- I ain't rude, I'm just honest, it's cultural!), I > think that people should read Ian's mail, with attention: > > "Speaking for myself, I find this a huge turnoff in the KDE world and am > now planning to retire from KDE as soon as I can. But then I am 76 and > git is my 10th source-code control system since 1965-66, so I have little > interest in mastering it. > > I have also found ReviewBoard utterly counter-productive this year, either > because one writes an entry and nobody reviews it, or nobody understands > it, or because one gets nitpicked about syntax and white space when one is > really looking for helpful advice about how better to solve the problem at > hand. I think I must have lost a month or two on ReviewBoard during the > year, with very little helpful advice gained." > > I consider nitpick reviews harmful. If you have nothing better to do than > nitpick, don't, and reviewboard is a tool which encourages you to do.
I wouldn't blame it on reviewboard, I don't have the impression it differs in this regard e.g. from gerrit. Alex