On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 05:51:20PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Otavio,
In message CAP9ODKox=e6j3UYdDJbgdxn+j8Orh+F15FeW5f17tgwLn8i68Q@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Are any of the Linux sub-trees managed by gerrit?
I don't think it is the right comparison. We are not discussing if Gerrit is good or bad; or even who uses it. Our focus must be: does Gerrit workflow work for /most/ of us? In case the answer is true, we can adopt it. Otherwise, no.
I was interested in existing experience with this tool. It seems it's something we cannot run for testing in parallel with the normal mailing list method, so we should be really sure that it works for the type of tasks we have to do.
In other situations we've always looked at what the Linux kernel guys are doing - assuming they have a very similar sort of taks, just at an even much higher scale.
So I think it would be very intersting information to learn if some of the Linux subsystems are using Gerrit, what their experience is, and how they organized their work flow around it.
I think in this case we won't find anyone (outside of "Android" subsystem) usnig it, in public. I know in private that companies use it for their review process, and it relatively works. I know the TI case the is much the same discussion we have between old school and new school reviewers.