Re: poll: switching our development platform

[pkx166h]

Hello,

On 15/04/2020 23:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:44 PM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > To conclude, I believe we should choose one of Gerrit and GitLab and
> > > have a trial to see if the processes can be carried over. (If not, we
> > > can still give the other platform a try.)
> > IIRC, Gerrit was not really tracking issues and thus would be a fill-in
> > rather just for the Rietveld part of our current setup rather than also
> > covering the SourceForge angle.  Do I remember wrong here?
> You are correct, but we use sf in large part for managing the patch
> flow (review vs push vs wait), and that aspect can be covered with
> Gerrit features completely.

One thing that Rietveld does not do (and, as far as my very quick and 
cursory browsing of Gerrit's website, does not seem to either) is handle 
image attachments (pngs, jpegs etc).

I don't know if this is useful or not to developers - i.e. reg test 
diffs and examples of new features showing music or bug/ugly notation 
output problems - obviously as LilyPond's /raison d'etre/ is about what 
things look like, how tedious is this going to be as 'shared links' 
often expire or end up broken after a period of time?

Also a lot of time can be saved for those on the lists and for that a 
random internet Joe who wants to report a bug or problem and can look 
something up relatively easily to see if it has already been been 
reported, again Rietveld is not useful for this and I cannot see how 
functional Gerrit is for this either.

Regards

James