On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Ignat Semenov <ragnarok...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello fellow KDE devs! > > While I'm not an experienced developer nor manager, the planned transition > to gerrit really troubles me. In particular, I have the following questions: > > 1)The gerrit installation used in qt makes it impossible to add comments > other than directly to the diff. No way to add comments on the main review > request page as it is in the RB installation we're currently using. Is there > any way to overcome that limitation? > > 2)The user interface of gerrit is horrible to say the least. The diff / > comment area is the last class citizen there. RR is way more clear and user- > friendly (esp. newcomers). > > 3)Does this transition mean we will have to use the full gerrit contribution > cycle, like it is in qt now, with branches and the special tools, even for > the smallest fixes? This will drive off new contributors, I'm afraid.
Direct contributions by those people who have a KDE Developer account will always be possible and will never be forced to go through Gerrit. Whilst code review is a nice thing, it is completely unnecessary with trivial changes or minor bugfixes. How it is used with larger changes is up to the projects themselves - but use of it will never be compulsory - direct access will always be available. > > 4)The Qt gerrit installation requires authentication just to browse the > existing requests read-only. Is it possible to do it differently or is this > a shortcoming of gerrit ( or its "design feature")? Pretty user- and > newcomer-unfriendly, too. > > Best regards, > Ignat Semenov > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel Regards, Ben Cooksley KDE Sysadmin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel