Yeah, this is kind of the opposite of "No New Rationale". https://air.mozilla.org/friday-plenary-rust-and-the-community/
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 2:49 PM, David Anderson <bailo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:38:18 PM UTC-7, Joe Hildebrand wrote: > > I'm responding at the top of the thread here so that I'm not singling > out any particular response. > > > > We didn't make clear in this process how much work Mark and his team did > ahead of the decision to gather feedback from senior engineers on both > Selena and my teams, and how deeply committed the directors have been in > their support of this change. > > > > Seeing a need for more modern patch reviewing at Mozilla, Laura > Thomson's team did an independent analysis of the most popular tools > available on the market today. Working with the NSS team to pilot their > selected tool, they found that Phabricator is a good fit for our > development approach (coincidentally a good enough fit that the Graphics > team was also piloting Phabricator in parallel). After getting the support > of the Engineering directors, they gathered feedback from senior engineers > and managers on the suggested approach, and tweaked dates and features to > match up with our release cycles more appropriately. > > The problem is this hasn't been transparent. It was announced as an edict, > and I don't remember seeing any public discussion beforehand. If senior > engineers were consulted, it wasn't many of them - and the only person I > know who was, was consulted after the decision was made. > > I've contributed thousands of patches over many years and haven't really > seen an explanation of how this change will make my development process > easier. Maybe it will, or maybe it won't. It probably won't be a big deal > because this kind of tooling is not really what makes development hard. I > don't spend most of my day figuring out how to get a changeset from one > place to another. > > The fact is that no one really asked us beforehand, "What would make > development easier?" We're just being told that Phabricator will. That's > why people are skeptical. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
