On 2013-03-14 11:20 PM, "Tyler Romeo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through > GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. > My browser is always logged into GitHub, and it's at the point where I can > casually just fork a project and begin working on it, whereas with Gerrit > you need to request an account. > > Like I said before, if you know how to use Git, you know how to use Gerrit > (and the contra-positive is true as well). The primary thing holding people > back is that it's confusing and not user friendly enough to make an account > and get working. Imagine if people could sign into Gerrit using their > Google accounts like Phabricator allows. I can guarantee participation > would skyrocket. > > *--* > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I can state from personal experiance that creating an account was not the hard part (particularly because I had my account created for me ;) and there definitly was a hard part learning gerrit. I have no idea how easy/hard it is to do things on github as I don't have an account there but at the very least they probably have more usability engineers than gerrit has. Svn had a much harder account creation procedure, but I personally felt the learning curve was much lower (or maybe I wss just more familar with the ideas involved.) Anyhow, point of this ramble: gerrit is difficult for newbies (or at least when I was. Many others have said similar things). Well we certainly want to keep gerrit, its important to recognize this and mitigate the difficulties where it is reasonable to do so. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
