On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Chris Behrens wrote: >> But leaving aside whether I like it or dislike it, what really bothers me is >> that there was discussion about moving things to github. And, I was 'ok' >> with that decision to do so despite preferring bzr and LP. My 'ok' was >> based on knowing how git, github pull requests, reviews, and so forth work. >> Now I feel like we're moving things to something to which I (and the >> community) never agreed. I never saw any discussion about Gerrit on the >> mailing list as far as "is everyone cool with this?" The first mention of >> it that I can find was July 18th regarding moving the CI repos. Doesn't >> seem like we were given much of an option. That really irks me. Above you >> say "that has been decided will be used for the core OpenStack projects". >> So, I have to ask: 'Who decided?'. I must have missed something. > > The PPB voted on that, mostly based on the feedback from the projects > that already migrated to it. Apparently the benefits of Gerrit (and the > 3-month-long process that led the team working on that to prefer that > solution) were not communicated enough outside of the circles that > followed the issue closely.
I think it would help if there was a page on the wiki that captured this info, as this would make it easier to find. I wrote a skeleton page: http://wiki.openstack.org/WhyGerrit and linked it from http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow, but it needs to be populated with content. Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist USC Information Sciences Institute 703.812.3710 http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin
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