[U-Boot] u-boot gerrit server

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:22:23PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:59:05PM -0800, Vadim Bendebury (????) wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:46:35AM -0800, Vadim Bendebury (????) wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello Wolfgang,
> >> > [snip]
> >> >> > Can you not pick up the patches directly from the mailing list?  I
> >> >> > mean, we know of the problems patchwork has (like silently dropping
> >> >> > certain base64 / utf8 encoded messages), so we should rather try and
> >> >> > get a more reliable feed for the patches?
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> this is the thing: picking up patches from patchwork is not something
> >> >> you'd do regularly - this is just my way of populating the review site
> >> >> from a single test account.
> >> >>
> >> >> If this workflow were adopted, each user would push their patch to the
> >> >> gerrit server, creating a new review branch for that particular patch.
> >> >> In general, gerrit view of the branch matches the submitter's view of
> >> >> the branch - if the submitter has several patches in one branch, they
> >> >> will all be uploaded by gerrit to the same separate branch,
> >> >> maintaining the relationship between the patches.
> >> >
> >> > This is my biggest concern.  On the one-off to infrequent contribution
> >> > side (and we do have some of that), I worry about the infrastucture
> >> > hurdle here.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sorry, I am not sure i understand what the biggest concern is: that
> >> the users would push their own patches? Why is this a problem - the
> >> patches would go into their own branches until reviewed and merged. Or
> >> did you mean something else?
> >
> > I mean, it's a higher hurdle to clear.  Looking at other non-Android
> > projects, I know some folks have said "bah, not worth the effort" to
> > push trivial things, if it must come via gerrit.  So some way to scrape
> > the ML for things that don't come in via gerrit to start with would be
> > handy.
> 
> I think this is something one of 'known' developers will end doing and
> applying it to Gerrit.

I suspect you're right, and that it would end up being me.  So I'm
fishing for something else, at least a little bit longer.

-- 
Tom
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