[TYPO3-dev] The future of Bug Days

Georg Ringer mail at ringerge.org
Mon Jul 25 10:29:05 CEST 2011


Am 25.07.2011 10:03, schrieb Jigal van Hemert:
> If you are not a command line person you are basically left on your own.

i am not a command line person as there is little to do on command line 
but I took the chance to improve there my knowledge (you always need 
command line on your unix servers...)

> A decent news reader such as Thunderbird (but others will probably have
> comparable features) has the option to attach categories (tags) to
> messages or threads. With a single click you can filter these. In a
> thread with the tag ("reviewed by reading and testing") a new message
> would emerge with another positive vote and I would simply mark it
> ("need to commit").

so you spent many hours and months of knowledge to get there as well.

> Okay, not technically advanced, automated, etc., but it worked very
> well. I could easily find patches I needed to review or commit.

if someone new wanted to use the mailinglists, 1st thing was "oh mailing 
lists, so old, why not use a forum...:" ;)

I love mailinglists but still: don't forget how long you needed to have 
a perfect environment there.

> In Gerrit I find it very hard to find change set which I have or have
> not reviewed yet, especially when a new version was pushed.

settings > preferences > Display Person Name In Review Categor

>> revitalize for discussing would be nice. so for each review a new thread
>> starts but IMO nobodoy got the extra time to get patches svn style into
>> gerrit.
>
> And if it would mean that reviewing activity would increase a lot? Would
> that justify the extra time?

git is your version control. mailing lists for discussions. A bridge 
would be good but IMO it is not good to change version control to svn style.

Georg




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