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From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
To: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"moving@dpdk.org" <moving@dpdk.org>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com" <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	"De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-moving] Proposal a Committer model
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:45:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB5PR04MB16052E73AD4F8A64C63B94AF89B00@DB5PR04MB1605.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <591DFA12-C6F8-4384-B241-40C84A11C100@intel.com>



> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:36 PM
> > On Nov 17, 2016, at 7:43 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2016-11-17 09:27, Mcnamara, John:
> >> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> >>> I believe the multi-committers model may not fix current consensus
> >>> slowness issue. Instead, if we are focusing on reducing the workload
> >>> of Thomas, then I think git pull request based scheme will reduce
> >>> the workload.
> >>
> >> So, something like a Gerrit model?
> >
> > No, the mechanics of committing is not time consuming.
> 
> The time consuming part is the reviewing the patch and using Gerrit does
> attempt to make sure the reviewers are emailed directly. This to me helps to
> require reviews as sometimes the huge email volume on the list is difficult to see
> patches someone needs to review.
> 
> I would much more prefer one email (from Gerrit) per patch set instead of 10 or
> 30 emails in some cases for a single email. Using gerrit also combines the patch
> review comments, patchwork and email list into one tool plus it can kick off the
> build and checkpatch processes.
> 
> Having a Gerrit model is not a bad process model and allows for multiple
> committers. I know it is a new tool and it is pretty simple to use.

[Hemant] I also agree that Gerrit is much better from committer, reviewer and submitter prospective. 

Why are we having reservations in moving to Gerrit? 


> 
> >
> 
> Regards,
> Keith

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-15 23:35 Mcnamara, John
2016-11-16 10:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-16 15:13   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-16 16:23     ` Wiles, Keith
2016-11-16 19:42     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-17  9:27       ` Mcnamara, John
2016-11-17 13:43         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-17 14:05           ` Wiles, Keith
2016-11-18 10:45             ` Hemant Agrawal [this message]
2016-11-18 17:14               ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-11-17 22:57         ` Ed Warnicke
2016-11-18 10:45         ` Hemant Agrawal
2016-11-16 20:16 ` Dave Neary
2016-11-17  8:14   ` Mcnamara, John

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