Ales Musil via discuss <[email protected]> writes: > The initial discussion was held during the OVN technical community meeting - > November 3rd > [0]. The recent patchwork slowness that lasted for a couple of months sparked > a discussion > if it's reasonable to switch to a different patchwork instance or platform > completely. The > three options listed during the discussion were following: > > 1) Keep using the current system. > > 2) Switch to Github pull request based approach. That would mean getting off > the mailing > list completely. This has some advantages in regards to CI as we wouldn't > require to pull the > patches from ML and submit them into a separate repository to do the testing. > Another > positive thing might be attracting more contributors. However, there are also > downsides > PRs usually means series of commits being submitted together, that might be > hard to > review. The conversations in PRs are hard to follow in something bigger. > > 3) Use a different patchwork instance. One of the suggested solutions might > be to move > not only the patchwork instance, but also ML into Linux Foundation. This > should bring more > stability and the overall process would change from the outside perspective, > the possible > downside is that this process would be slow spanning over weeks, maybe even > months. > > 4) Use a Gerrit instance, during the meeting there wasn't a huge discussion > about gerrit and > given our choices it might actually be more of an extra unless someone has a > really good > reason why we would choose that.
Gerrit brings in a host of problems, imo. Their workflow (especially when doing some change reviews) is extremely "opinionated" and I've found it to be very inflexible when I've used it in the past. I can think of more reasons *not* to choose Gerrit than to choose it (for example, the way it requires rebasing after changes). > The list is not exhaustive, any other suggestions are very much welcome, plus > the opinion > why certain options might be or not be a good idea. I would also like to > emphasize that this > is an open ended question. This thread should serve as a discussion > continuation. Please let > us know what you think. > > [0] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2025-October/426687.html > > Best regards, > Ales > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
