On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM, John Du Hart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just want to check in to see how everyone's doing. I see a lot of account > > creations however no posts to differential. Is there a problem I'm not > > aware of? Documentation problems? Software issues? Do we see something we > > don't like? > > > > What's up? > > Hi John, > > Just mulling it over, mainly. I love having a test instance to play > with, and agree with you that it looks way easier to use than Gerrit > on the surface. I don't want that to be taken as an endorsement of > the system just yet, because I don't know enough about either system > (Gerrit or Phabricator) to have a valid opinion about which is better > for us. > > What Chad, Sumana and I spoke about earlier today was the tough > reality we're in. In order to get moved to Git in the very short > term, we're going to have to stay the course on Gerrit. That said, > one beautiful thing about Git is that Git repos are far more portable > than SVN repos. We could decide we're going to use Gerrit on a > probationary basis, and have a serious reevaluation in three months. > Sumana and I would like to go in that direction, and we twisted Chad's > arm hard enough on this point that he might just say he agrees with > us, even if he's secretly blowing us off ;-) > > There's at least one feature we would need to use this system, which > is LDAP integration. I don't think we can seriously consider a system > that doesn't have some sort of sensible plan for how it's going to > work with our LDAP server. I do, however, love the idea of using > OAuth for filling in credentials from other services like Github. It > would be ridiculously cool if people could use their Wikimedia SUL > logins to access this system. > > It's also nice that this is written in PHP. Since we have an > abundance of PHP developers, that means it's far more likely that > customization we need would actually happen. > > In general, it's good to have options. Like I said, I don't want to > put the brakes on our immediate plans, but I think it's worth > consideration after we've given Gerrit a try. > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > I compeletely agree with that. It would be a complete waste to have chad and others' work from the past 5 months thrown away at the last minute for a solution brought up this late. We can initially use git for the migration however if we decide to later, Phabricator is still available. :-) -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
