From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>,
Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 16:04:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d0af1d9-21f8-4c60-ad4c-cd82c0c0cabb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0347e05a-94c6-4ecc-aa8f-cc90358a813d@gmail.com>
On 5/1/24 12:15, Jeff Law wrote:
>
>
> On 4/22/24 9:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> Jason> Someone mentioned earlier that gerrit was previously tried
>> Jason> unsuccessfully.
>>
>> We tried it and gdb and then abandoned it. We tried to integrate it
>> into the traditional gdb development style, having it send email to
>> gdb-patches. I found these somewhat hard to read and in the end we
>> agreed not to use it.
>>
>> I've come around again to thinking we should probably abandon email
>> instead. For me the main benefit is that gerrit has patch tracking,
>> unlike our current system, where losing patches is fairly routine.
>>
>> Jason> I think this is a common pattern in GCC at least: someone has an
>> Jason> idea for a workflow improvement, and gets it working, but it
>> Jason> isn't widely adopted.
>>
>> It essentially has to be mandated, IMO.
>>
>> For GCC this seems somewhat harder since the community is larger, so
>> there's more people to convince.
> I tend to think it's the principal reviewers that will drive this. If
> several of the key folks indicated they were going to use system XYZ,
> whatever it is, that would drive everyone to that system.
>
> We're currently using patchwork to track patches tagged with RISC-V. We
> don't do much review with patchwork. In that model patchwork ultimately
> just adds overhead as I'm constantly trying to figure out what patches
> have been integrated vs what are still outstanding.
>
> Patchwork definitely isn't the answer IMHO. Nor is gitlab MRs which we
> use heavily internally. But boy I want to get away from email and to a
> pull request kind of flow.
Do you (or others) have any thoughts about GitLab FOSS?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-01 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 23:27 Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans Mark Wielaard
2024-04-18 6:04 ` Thomas Koenig
2024-04-18 8:14 ` FX Coudert
2024-04-18 9:01 ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-18 11:38 ` Janne Blomqvist
2024-04-18 12:01 ` Generated files in libgfortran for Fortran intrinsic procedures (was: Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans) Tobias Burnus
2024-04-18 12:32 ` Martin Uecker
2024-04-19 9:35 ` Updated Sourceware infrastructure plans Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-18 15:56 ` Joseph Myers
2024-04-18 17:37 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2024-04-18 17:54 ` Joseph Myers
2024-04-18 18:29 ` Matt Rice
2024-04-22 15:39 ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-23 2:55 ` Jason Merrill
2024-04-23 3:12 ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-23 3:24 ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-23 3:51 ` Jason Merrill
2024-04-23 8:56 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-23 9:39 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2024-04-23 15:08 ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-23 15:25 ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-24 8:49 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2024-04-23 4:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2024-04-23 9:30 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2024-04-23 13:51 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2024-05-01 19:15 ` Jeff Law
2024-05-01 19:38 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-05-01 20:20 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-05-01 20:53 ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-01 21:04 ` Simon Marchi
2024-05-02 15:35 ` Pedro Alves
2024-05-02 23:05 ` Fangrui Song
[not found] ` <DS7PR12MB57651DA3A5C22B2847C13580CB182@DS7PR12MB5765.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
2024-05-07 16:17 ` Joseph Myers
2024-05-10 10:43 ` Ben Boeckel
2024-05-01 20:04 ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2024-05-01 21:26 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-05-01 22:01 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2024-05-02 12:54 ` Claudio Bantaloukas
2024-05-02 15:33 ` Pedro Alves
2024-05-03 2:59 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2024-05-04 19:56 ` Ben Boeckel
2024-05-05 5:22 ` Benson Muite
2024-05-06 13:58 ` Ben Boeckel
2024-05-07 16:26 ` Joseph Myers
2024-05-01 21:38 ` Jeff Law
2024-05-02 6:47 ` Richard Biener
2024-05-02 11:29 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2024-05-02 14:26 ` Simon Marchi
2024-05-02 11:45 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-05-01 22:56 ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-23 10:34 ` Florian Weimer
2024-04-22 10:01 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-22 13:23 ` Joseph Myers
2024-04-19 9:33 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-22 10:24 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-22 11:40 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-23 0:48 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2024-05-16 15:58 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-05-17 13:42 ` Mark Wielaard
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