On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:34:48 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > I am going to mention patchwork again - a bunch of Linux kernel projects use > it to monitor patches that go past on their lists; it could easily capture, in > fact, not just the deliberate dev list things, but also the user list set of > patches. > > http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork/ > > You can see it in anger here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/ > > > It deliberately acts as a mechanism to capture patches, and review, in a form > designed for long term archival and access - without replacing the mailing > list as the primary mechanism for communication. > > > Otherwise I am gonna advocate Gerit, which every single project I know that > has adopted has within a month had a rash of "wow, this is like the SVN to GIT > change for us!" comments. > > Gerit is a much bigger change of process, though, than patchwork. >
I've brought up Patchwork internally a couple of times, and a couple of us have worked on getting it up, and running, with very limited success. Unfortunately, the documentation, and finicky version dependencies meant that we never actually got it fully setup. I'd love to have a complete set of directions on getting it setup (or something with the same features). I think it's pretty much exactly what we need to help prevent community submissions from falling through the cracks so easily. As far as Gerrit...well...I rather dislike it, actually. I think that it has a rather awkward work-flow. Especially if you're not all that familiar with Git (and even if you are). I'd rather not raise the bar for submitting patches quite that high. Personally, I like an emailed patches based work-flow. I also realize that it isn't quite working for us at the moment. I also realize that I have a very different email setup from the reset of the development team, and that it's mainly geared around this type of work-flow. No matter what "internal" development does, I'd still love to see something like patchwork to help keep track of community submissions. Anyone feel like helping out with getting some step-by-step directions on getting patchwork up on Ubuntu 10.04? ;-) -- Jacob Helwig
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