[OE-core] Patch merge process

[Alexander Kanevskiy]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:39:17AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > If Richard doesn't want to use gerrit for OE-core, that doesn't exclude
> > > others from using it for the layers they manage, does it?
> >
> > yes, however, we should prefer this to run on oe domain, its better
> > for project and then if most of layers use it its fine too, it could
> > end up
> > with same situation as patchwork where oe-core and bitbake do not use
> > it actively. other layers do. its not ideal situation but its ok as
> > long as
> > its makes people productive, we could be open for options its matter
> > of volunteers then maintaining the infra for these services.
>
> I agree, there are not technical reasons for not using it for other
> layers, but once we ask contributors to create account on gerrit and
> submit all patches through gerrit for *some* layers, then these people
> will ask why oe-core and bitbake submissions are different.
>
> I should also say that I really like gerrit work-flow and review, but if
> people continue to send patches to e-mail and someone else will need to
> add Change-Ids to them and consolidate them into review-chains, than
> it's not as great as it could be if all related people "buy-it" and use
> it exclusively.
>
>
Gerrit, despite its good ability to integrate into existing infrastructures
might be not the best solution for OE, and I must admit, gerrit is not the
best tool in the world for reviews, as there are limits in it like missing
ability to review properly series of patches.

However, for people who don't like Gerrit, there is also always a
possibility to use GitHub or something similar, like locally hosted GitLab
if OE don't want to be dependant on external service.


> Regards,
>
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