On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Joe Mason <joe.ma...@torchmobile.com>wrote: > >> Mark Rowe wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2009-06-11, at 15:16, Ojan Vafai wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Ojan Vafai <o...@google.com <mailto: >>>> o...@google.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Mark Rowe <mr...@apple.com >>>> <mailto:mr...@apple.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> There are also concerns about access to the data store of the >>>> application, backup procedures, etc. Our existing servers >>>> are well understood in this regard. We've also found in the >>>> past that having services spread across different systems >>>> causes confusion when something goes wrong, for whatever >>>> reason, as it's not clear who to contact to address the problem. >>>> >>>> >>>> For what it's worth, we've had next to zero maintenance effort go >>>> into keeping rietveld running on appengine. As far as I know, >>>> it's been pretty much stable and problem free. But I don't >>>> actually maintain it, so I can't say that for sure. :) >>>> >>>> It seems to me that all the issues raised with using reitveld are >>>> solvable. Assuming you all are OK with doing this iteratively instead of >>>> needing all the issues to be resolved on day one, I think we can probably >>>> start taking concrete steps forward. >>>> >>> >>> Given what has been said so far I'm still not clear why Rietvald is a >>> better option than Review Board. >>> >> Well, I haven't heard anything concrete on why Review Board is better than >> rveld, either. All I've seen are some posts saying, "You know, Review Board >> exists too." Is the UI better? Is the architecture better? Is the design >> very different? Is it easier to integrate with git? Exactly how much work >> is involved in hosting each of these solutions? The only thing concrete >> I've seen is that Review Board is self-hosting, while rveld is tied to >> AppEngine. > > > ...and there's some that you could run rietveld without AppEngine > infastructure if necessary. > er...there's "there's some _evidence_ that you could run rietveld without AppEngine infastructure if necessary." (referring back to Ojan's comment) > > FWIW, another project I (used to) work on tried Review Board out about a > year ago. We found it to be pretty clunky, so we continued just doing code > reviews via diffs in email. Maybe it's improved since then. Either way, I > believe the team is now using Rietveld for large reviews. > > J >
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