[U-Boot] u-boot gerrit server

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Tue Nov 12 18:13:15 CET 2013


Hi Otavio,

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:00:06 -0200, 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.

How about one branch per custodian? At my previous job we had a couple
branches, one per distinct "product".

> 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.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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