Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

["Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Michael Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Its fine as long as infra is the centre of our operations.  Because github
>> is so much better than cvs provided by infra (sorry infra its true) I worry
>> that we'll depend on it too much.  To be honest, I love the entire github
>> workflow and would feel much better if we could just own it ourselves.
>>
>
> In case folks on this list haven't seen it before, Gerrit[1] offers a
> workflow that might be attractive to Gentoo, over and above GitHub's.

A few people have mentioned gerrit over time and the infra team is aware 
of it. Unfortunately, gerrit requires Java[1].

  [1] - 
https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/install.html#requirements

> Some example's of Gerrit in use include the Qt project [2] and Coreboot
> project [3]
>
> Of special interest is that Gerrit provides an API by which verification
> scripts can be run against each patch under consideration, such a repoman.
> It further lets authorized users to push a patch from the web, without
> needing to open the git commandline, similar to how GitHub pull requests
> work.
>
> Just food for thought!
>
> Cheers
> --Michael Jones
>
>
>
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>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
>> Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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> [1] https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
> [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/q/status:open,n,z
> [3] http://review.coreboot.org/#/q/status:open

Regards,
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Gentoo Developer