[haiku-development] Re: gerrit issues
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 08:58:17 +0100
I haven't been really happy with Gerrit, the workflow seems nice enough, but
there have been a lot of pains:
* Difficult to setup with minimal documentation
* Lots of unmaintained plugins handing core features
I bet it's not worse than Trac on that aspect :(
* Not much community. Lots of unanswered calls for help on IRC
Not all communities lie on IRC. The Google Group here seems quite
active:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/repo-discuss
* Poor administration features. Waddlesplash has to log into the java sql
db to hand-correct account issues.
This is most likely related to the github authentication plugin which
sometimes fails to properly import e-mail addresses, not Gerrit itself.
There is normally a way to manage your e-mail addresses in Gerrit web
UI, but the github auth plugin makes this unaccessible.
* Non-standard git hook interface.
* UX issues, lots of things where they "shouldn't be"
* New UI is uninspiring as the old ui.
At least for the UX side, there are non-web clients to Gerrit. There is
the "review" tool, and there is "gertty". I would say a lot of people
use these and as a result the web UI may be a little left behind. There
may be other similar tools, as well.
I must admit I preferred the old UI from a few years ago. It sure was
ugly, but it didn't have rendering glitches, at least.
--
Adrien.
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