[U-Boot] u-boot gerrit server

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Tue Nov 12 18:00:06 CET 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Vadim Bendebury (вб)
<vbendeb at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Vadim Bendebury (вб)
>> <vbendeb at google.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Otavio Salvador
>>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>> Once I saw this announcement I thought the same thing as Albert: how
>>>> custodians will have their trees there?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is easy to create multiple projects, one per custodian.
>>
>> Yes but than Tom would need to send another branch for review or
>> directly push into master?
>>
>
> I am not sure what would be the best way of doing it, but the bottom
> line is that there still would be multiple git repos with chunks of
> code going upstream once accepted by custodians.
>
>> Besides, how people will 'transfer' one patch from one tree to
>> another? This will happen quite often as someone mistakenly sending a
>> patch for the wrong tree or custodians wanting the set to go together
>> in a single merge...
>>
>
> How is it handled today? Gerrit is after all just a means of keeping
> track of patches in a more efficient way, the rest could be similar to
> what is in use now, or enhanced using gerrit's features.

Currently it is just reassigned in Patchwork; using multiple trees
will complicate this.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Gerrit, I am just trying to bring up the
problems/issues we need to find solutions to be able to use/try it.

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