----- Messaggio originale ----- > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Sateesh Babu <sateesh.kav...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Ryan Ware <ryan.r.w...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > In the cases which do readily exist for code submissions directly > into > > > MeeGo, the mail list format works exceedingly well. It has worked > for > > > large, dynamic projects for a long period of time and has a track > record > > > that can be predicted and relied upon. No, it's not perfect, but as > the > > > person responsible for ensuring security defects are corrected in a > > > timely and responsive manner, I think the track record shows that > mail > > > lists find a large percentage of the issues while the other tools > > > mentioned in this thread don't have a similar extensive track record. > > > > But why to enforce only email review, when there is also a group that > is > > interested in review tools. Review of patches is fine, but a tool like > > reviewboard > > provides a complete context of the code change and some nice features > of > > easy commenting. > > IMO it's fine if it's a MeeGo only group, but what if you want the > patches to be reviewed upstream and they don't like reviewboard, or > they have their own tools? > > This is what I mean when I say reviewboard and bugzilla are not > distributed. Supposing you have a mailing list that is properly > configured: > > 1) Reply-To munging is not used > 2) Non-subscriber posts are allowed (moderated) > 3) Patches are welcome > > Then you can really exploit the power of patch reviewing through email > in a distributed manner. For example you can send patches to > meego-kernel, linux-omap and linux-kernel, the review comments would > be available to everybody in all the mailing lists.
It's difficult to disagree with this... > > This is just not possible with reviewboard. > > > A track record cannot be created unless and the new tool is tried > out :) > > Reviewboard has been out there since quite some time, maybe people > have tried it out; it just doesn't have enough traction. Maybe bad habits are difficult to kill? :) -- Stefano Sent from N900 > > -- > Felipe Contreras > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > MeeGo-dev@meego.com > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
