On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:34:13PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:11:31PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> Still, this removes the comments from many people's (potential) >> sight. The IMO big advantage of the "everything on a single mailing >> list" approach is that everybody is forced ;) to see everything >> (modulo information overload) > I can assure you that I am not forced to see your comments on the mailing > list. Indeed, unless I am on CC or the subject sounds very thrilling the mail > body never passes my eye. Exactly: this is not about *forcing* people to see, but about a "push" model rather than a "pull" model. With publish-to-ML, it is "push" and we can "easily" (for some value of "easily") sort out what to look at from the subject line. Gerrit seemingly gets us to a "pull" model; we have to go look for patches to review, be it on the web interface or by command-line query. It becomes a separate action from reading the ML. What I fear the most in that is that I have no way to mark a patch as "I won't review it, not my area / I don't know / don't understand / ...". With publish-to-ML, I just mark the post / whole thread as "read". With gerrit, I fear I will see the same patch ever and ever again in my queries... And the "gerrit daily digest" idea floating around is not really, really helpful there, exactly because we lose the capacity of scanning for interesting patches by subject and the capacity to individually mark patches as "not to be looked at again". We already have separate libreoffice-commits and libreoffice-bugs mailing lists so as not to flood the "main" development mailing list with those; maybe we could use a "libreoffice-review" mailing list to get *one* mail for each gerrit action? Gerrit action = +1/-1 validate, +1/+2/-1/-2 codereview, gerrit automatic push, comment added, patch changed, new patch, ... And all emails concerning one patch/change in one thread, just like the bugzilla mails for one bug are all in one thread. I'd subscribe to such a mailing list (and obviously quickly scan by subject and not read most threads). As I review very few patches, keeping me happy in this respect is probably not high priority, except maybe as a long tail argument (if we have 100 committers reviewing one patch per two months, that's still 600 reviews per year... Worth having for the project). -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
