Using gerrit or github for review?

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:09:23AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13. 07. 20 22:36, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:25:42PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> At present U-Boot uses the mailing list for patch review. What do
> >> people think about trying out geritt or github for this? I'd be
> >> willing to do a trial with the -dm mailing list.
> >>
> >> My idea is that patman would email out the patches and also upload
> >> them to one of these systems. With geritt, emails are sent every time
> >> there is a review, but for github I'm not sure.
> > 
> > As you said, you also intended to include gitlab in the list.
> > 
> > So, things that I think could be better, or more widely known, would be
> > how to trigger Azure CI runs (as there's good resources available for
> > free) and GitLab for non-custodians.  By which I mean, anyone can get a
> > CI run on Azure today via a GitHub PR.  Making that known more widely
> > would be good.
> > 
> > For patch review, are there any of the Linux kernel bots that are well
> > enough documented for someone else to pick up and use?  I feel like our
> > biggest problems are:
> > - Lack of reviewers in general for various areas.
> > - Lack of feedback to users (developers) before being picked up for
> >   general changes.
> > 
> > For the second problem, I feel like some of the Linux bots would be a
> > little helpful, but probably require some tweaking (figure out when /
> > how to fire off more limited CI, or just do a daily CI run vs every
> > patch, given the size of our CI build).
> > 
> 
> Don't have details but patchwork should support (somehow) to run some
> checks.
> Here you can see it working.
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/1594676120-5862-7-git-send-email-prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com/
> or
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20200713132927.24925-2-abailon@baylibre.com/
> 
> It means when the patch reach patchwork checks can run. Would be
> wonderful to get PASS/FAIL with link via email from CI loop.
> 
> I don't have experience with gerrit but definitely don't like using
> github for contribution and prefer to use review based on emails.

Oh wow, that is useful.  Rob, can you share what you're doing for that?
Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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