Hi everyone, As you know, when we moved to Git, we decided we would retire our home grown "Code Review" extension for MediaWiki. Having collectively not had a lot of experience with Git-based code review tools, we decided to try Gerrit.
Moving to Git was a very deliberate decision that was discussed over many years, Gerrit wasn't discussed in much detail until after the migration. As discussed earlier on this list, we'd like to revisit the Gerrit decision, and either commit to it for the next couple years or so, or put in place a plan to migrate to some other system. Here's the plan: let's discuss the alternatives here for the next three weeks, keeping this page up-to-date based on the discussion: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_evaluation Brion has graciously agreed to act as the judge and jury, and make the call which way to go. He's in a good position to be a reasonably neutral but also very informed party. He also doesn't have the conflict of interest that I have (I've got an admitted pro-Gerrit bias just due to not wanting to take on more work for my team's backlog). You'll notice that the wiki page above has a "The case for Gerrit" and "The case against Gerrit". Chad is lead editor the pro-Gerrit case, so the section "The case for Gerrit" is not NPOV, it's ChadPOV. :) Similarly, the anti-Gerrit case lead editor is David Schoonover. You shouldn't let that stop you from editing that page though. In fact, the anti-Gerrit section was entirely written by Ori Livneh as of this writing. Chad is coming to San Francisco the week of August 6. We're planning to have a meeting to finalize the decision when he's in town. However, that will hopefully be a rubber stamp of whatever consensus emerges on list, rather than something we're still trying to hash out. So, if you'd like to see us move off of Gerrit, now is your chance. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
