Re: How to get reviews on gerrit? aka. patches ignored for three years.

Hi Vadim,

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 04:50:27PM -0700, Vadim Bendebury wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 6:53 AM Daniel Gröber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Honestly this gerrit thing may work OK for companies where people are
> > properly incentivized to do their assigned reviews or people in the
> > in-group that know who to poke to get things moving, but for outside
> > contributors the experience is even more fundamentally broken than the
> > email/ML patch workflow and that's saying something.
> >
> 
> I am curious how is gerrit review worflow is more broken than the emai/ML
> patch worflow, i.e. what do you think is better in the latter?

I expanded on this in my reply to Martin:

> The email-based git workflow (which GH copied fairly well) does things
> right here by having the "default" be for people to get notified of all
> project activity and sending reviews being as easy as an email reply.
> 
> This paves the way to anyone becoming a maintainer/reviewer simply by being
> one without needing any "permission".

Don't get me wrong, the email workflow without any additional tooling
around it (patchwork or lists.sr.ht's patch support etc.) has it's own
problems but in my mind community building is more important for FLOSS
projects than a lot of other cosiderations when it comes to collaboration
tools/infrastructure.

I find gerrit uniquely lacking here. The fact that it just isn't a tool
that's commonly used as opposed to say GH/GL/G☕ doesn't help there but
isn't the only problem.

Another is this: Something I do when I get to know a project is subscribe
to the ML or equivalent and passively watch patches, reviews and banter to
get a feel for how things are done here. I have no idea how you would do
this with gerrit other than by actively adding yourself to CC on patches
(which I feel is too visible to really be an equivalent) or actively
deathscrolling through the patch lists, which I'm (personally) not going to
remember to do periodically.

Perhaps I'm just exceptionally gerrit challanged?

--Daniel
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