[U-Boot] u-boot gerrit server

[Vadim Bendebury (вб)]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ottavio, these all are certainly very good questions to ask.
Admittedly, I am not very much involved in the u-boot review process,
so I am sure there are details to figure out.

It is just a question of buying into a web/GUI based review system,
once that decision is made the details could be sorted out in more
ways than one.

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