Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The place of AI code review in the Linux Kernel process

On Fri, 2026-07-24 at 09:08 +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
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> (For a comparison, the Android/Chromium Gerrit, which is somehow so
> hated by the kernel developers outside of Google, allows me to easily
> see the difference between any given revisions, lined up with
> comments from those revisions, making it really easy to confirm the
> necessary changes are there.)

This is really just about *how* you like to do reviews.  The main
problem with gerrit isn't that the interface is bad, it's that it
completely alters the workflow.  However, if the workflow could remain
the same and gerrit became simply a tool for looking at reviews, I
suspect people might like it much more.

It shouldn't be too hard to take lore and give it a gerrit like front
end for patch review, given that it has all the information and it's a
fairly mechanical transform between inline email comments and patch
comments in gerrit.  It's probably quite easy to vibe code if you
wanted to try ... and I'm sure if you come up with something
reasonable, Konstantin will probably be able to deploy it more widely.

Regards,

James