On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:11:33PM +0100, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > Just to be clear: if you want to submit a patch to OpenOCD, then you > do need to learn Gerrit to give your patch the best chances of review > and approval.
Of course a project can enforce whatever its owners/busy members/etc decide. > It's pretty much a fact of life for open source that you need to show > that you're willing to put in time if you expect that others are going > to spend time on what you're interested in. Agreed. > If you can formulate a decent patch, then learning Gerrit will be a > walk in the park. In this light, the list isn't terribly concerned > about those patches that we "miss out on" because someone doesn't want > to spend the time to learn Gerrit. Personally I view it as a noise > filter. I expect lots of useful contributions (patches, new board configs etc) simply are not sent because of this. I think that this is NOT sensible, though it does depend on what amount of "noise" (in the sense of unwanted/bad patches etc) there is / would be. Here? Very little... I think it explains the small number of items from anyone but a few people. Everyone else is deterred completely. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list OpenOCD-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
