On 2024-02-04 16:12, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 12:50:04PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
Given the open nature of lore it should be feasible to provide
additional interfaces on top of it that cater to people used to PRs
on popular forge web UIs without hijacking the whole project and the
existing tools and interfaces. For some reason people are set on
replacing it as a whole, and removing the interfaces they personally
don't use,
calling them obosolete.
because they positively *are*.
when i started, patch-based code reviews were the norm, and i'm still
using them for my small project with almost no external contributions.
but after working with gerrit code review for over a decade, i find it
mind-boggling that people are still voluntarily subjecting themselves
to mail-based reviews for serious high-volume work.
it doesn't matter just how super-proficient you got with your old
tools. there is just no way you'll get anywhere near as efficient as
you would with the new ones, if you just were interested enough to
learn them. migrating the workflows that are worth keeping isn't such
a bit deal.
Please, keep in mind that not everyone lives in a web browser and
loves to click around. Some people simply prefer to use the CLI
utilities and to press the keys on their keyboards, and are very
efficient while doing that.
i'll note that i don't consider github-like forges to be adequate
tools for serious work, as they seem to intentionally discourage
producing polished commits.
the gerrit project is unfortunately not interested in building a
proper forge, but luckily there is a bridge to github (hosted version
available at gerrithub.io).
