wow, looks like is missed quite a lot while my power was out..
a high level response from the bmo team is: a goal for this quarter is
to address a lot of the review related issues.
i've been working through splinter issues and fixing the easy ones (it
no longer has problems with renames/copies!), and have also been scoping
out the viability of replacing splinter with either review-board or
webkit's system.
should review-board be viable (and i hope it will be), the plan is to
host a customised version of review-board, tightly integrated with
bugzilla. i have a preliminary "sounds reasonable" from IT with regards
to hosting, and i'm waiting on word from our security team before
proceeding with a more detailed scoping exercise (bug 874767).
Justin Lebar wrote:
I mean no disrespect to our bugzilla maintainers, who have an
impossible and largely thankless job, but bugzilla has so much baggage
from the '90s, my experience is that it ruins everything it touches.
We shouldn't conflate owning the PR data with integrating the PR tool
into bugzilla. If we do, we risk ending up with yet another crappy
non-solution to a real problem (see bugzilla interdiff, splinter
integration, and so on).
it's very hard to not take disrespect with you saying that we ruin
everything we touch and turn it to crap.
there needs to be integration between review-board and bugzilla from a
security point of view (patches on secure bugs need to stay secured), as
well as from a process perspective (the results of a review should be
emailed to everyone involved in the bug, and the bug needs to be updated
in some way). to me the way to achieve this is to continue to use
bugzilla as the source of truth (ie. attach the patch to the bug), but
conduct the reviews in review-board with automatic updating of the bug.
-byron
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