Le 08/04/12 14:44, Daniel Friesen wrote : > We're using gerrit now. And as we use it we all keep running into issues > stemming fundamentally from how gerrit is designed. <snip>
Hello Daniel, We already had the experience of writing a code review tool from scratch and although it filled a need at that time, I am not going to regret it. I do not think the foundation should fund the project of writing a new app from scratch which probably nobody else will use anyway and based on a niche Framework which is MediaWiki. Instead we should stick to reuses existing tools and have them enhanced to fit our needs, writing a whole new app should be a solution of last resort. Before starting to write code in a rush, your really first step should be to find out what is *functionally* wrong with Gerrit and find out what we need. I have yet to find out anyone describing what is wrong with Gerrit although we all have a sentiment that the UI is confusing and some obvious technical issues. They do not justify a rewrite in my opinion. Once you have a list of requirements, though, we could look at the possibility of fixing Gerrit to fit our needs. If that is not possible, we could use that list as a basis to find out another tool. You could coordinate with John Du Hart who has been working on Phabricator, a suite of tools from Facebook which include a code review tool as I understand it. Other examples that comes to mind are GitHub and Gitorious. Meanwhile, dont waste your time coding something we are most certainly never going to use. cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
