> 3 окт. 2020 г., в 2:24 AM, Adrien Destugues <pulkoma...@pulkomandy.tk> > написал(а): > > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 07:05:21PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >>> I realize that Gerrit might not integrate at all with hosting the repo >>> on Github, but has any thought been given to this aspect of the >>> transition? >> >> That sounds like it would be a significant barrier to contribution, and >> frankly defeat the point of switching. If we have serious concerns with >> GitHub's code review functionality (which, again, I'm not familiar with), >> then we should just use GitLab and have everything in one place. (GitLab >> accepts GitHub logins via OAuth, both on gitlab.com and self-hosted >> instances, so the barrier to contributing remains low either way.) > > Gerrit accepts GitHub and other OAuth providers as well, so that's not a > problem. We have been using this for Haiku code reviews for a few years > now, and interestingly we got some complaints from people who don't want > to have a Github account (for various reasons) and won't use our code > review tool because of that.
What are the reasons why people don't want to have a GitHub account? I wonder if that's somehow a different kind of barrier to entry to be concerned about. - Alexey > I think the integration referred to was rather in terms of having > reviews synchronized between Gerrit and Github pull requests, which is > also possible, but I think if the point is to use Github, it doesn't > work this way: if your workflow is too different from the standard way > to use Github, people will still be confused by it and it will still be > a barrier to contribution. > > I think having to create an account on a website isn't the main thing > preventing people to contribute anyway? It's more about having to use > project-specific tools to prepare the patch for submission (in the case > of WebKit, having to write the commit message in the Changelog file, for > example). > > -- > Adrien / PulkoMandy > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
