On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:58:54AM -0700, Erik Moeller wrote: > From what I can tell, we have essentially three choices: > > * Continue to work with the heavily centralized and clunky Gerrit > workflow, and try to beat it into shape to not cause us too much pain, > while seeing people increasingly move into GitHub for doing > experimental projects. Hope for Gerrit's large developer base to > ultimately join a rewrite effort, or to incrementally make it better. > Build Gerrit/GitHub bridges if possible. > > * Drink the kool-aid and join the wonderful semi-open world of GitHub, > with all the risks and benefits it entails. > > * Help build a realistic alternative to GitHub, probably by building > on the open source toolset that's the closest right now in terms of > its overall architectural approach and existing functionality. (My > impression: Gitorious is closer in functionality but at a lower > overall quality, Phabricator/Barkeep are much more limited in > functionality right now and therefore would take a long time to be > usable with our current workflow assumptions.)
That's a nice summary. I (too?) like option 3. My distaste for Gerrit and closed platforms are probably on par right now. Regards, Faidon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
