Re: Proposal: an improvement to our Git and tarballs infrastructure

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Thanks for bringing this up. 
No strong opinions, more like some side comments:

On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 12:08 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> The real question is: are tarballs really useful in some way? JHBuild
> and the new build.gnome.org based on OSTree don't require tarballs at
> all, they both clone all the needed modules and do the build. I see
> tarballs being useful for distribution's packagers but shouldn't
> cgit's snapshots be enough for that? (this is a new feature I've
> introduced yesterday at git.gnome.org, you can see it in action at
> [1])

What am I supposed to spot / see? And where is the tarball file download
link that I'm looking for? :P

> The next thing I would like to discuss is what the release team feels
> as a possible improvement for git.gnome.org. Do we need something like
> Gitlab / Gitorious? [2] - [3] 

Which *functionality* gains are implied?
I simply don't know exactly what Gitlab / Gitorious offer that you might
see as good reasons to consider them.

> Do we need a code review tool like Gerrit [4] or Review Board [5]?
> (note that we currently use Owen's splinter on bugzilla for doing
> code / patches reviews)

Splinter on bugzilla.gnome.org has been broken for ages, I always get
"Failed to retrieve attachment 123456" and gave up, though it was nice.

*If* we'd like to bikeshed, err, discuss about moving to a code review
tool, we should define criteria and check other project's evaluations
for the same problem first, e.g. MediaWiki's Gerrit use:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_evaluation . LibreOffice and
Eclipse also use Gerrit when I checked a few months ago.
KDE (and Apache) use Review Board but I couldn't find any evaluations
(looks like the KDE Plasma team had started with it even earlier).
For GNOME's historical reasons against reviewboard, see
http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/09/15/review-board-vs-git-bz/


andre

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