On 12/08/2010 01:23 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.03 +0000, Andrew Haley ha scritto: >> On 12/08/2010 12:57 PM, Mario Torre wrote: >>> >>> If we were using mecurial we could use review board or webrew. >> >> We could, but these just introduce extra barriers: it's very easy >> to just read a mail. Let's not get obsessed with tools: the issue >> here is social, not technical. > > I don't think they introduce any other overhead than preparing the patch > itself. You just post the patch via mercurial directly rather than via > first a mailing list (and mercurial takes care of sending the mail to > the patches list), and it makes line by line review easier, so this is > no obsession. > > If you think this is overkill, because the number of patches we have to > review is pretty limited, then this is a different issue and then I may > agree with you. I use webrevs all the time. I use patch mails all the time. I use Mercurial all the time. It's not that I don't understand how all this works, so you don't need to explain. I just don't agree with you. I prefer simple tools. Andrew.
