[OpenWrt-Devel] SVN to GIT transition

[James Hilliard]

What do you think about using something like Jira for project
management(which is free for open source projects)? I know it was used by
cyanogenmod with decent success. One other potential advantage would be the
possibility of CI testing being tied in more closely.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:46 AM, John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 12/10/2015 08:38, Steven Barth wrote:
> > Let's face it though: the current workflow wrt. core patches is crappy.
> >
> > 1. Go to patchwork, see if there is a patch
> > 2. If you want to comment, switch to mail client, find thread, write
> reply.
> > 3. If you want to commit: download patch, go to command line, see if it
> applies
> > 4. Then manually go back to patchwork and adjust the status of the patch.
> > 5. Upon merging go back to mail and write a mail ala "Patch Accepted".
> >
> >
> > Sure could use pwclient and ocassionally do, however it does essentially
> one thing
> > only: save me the download step. Yes, I can also save me the click back
> to the
> > browser to hit accept and can do that via CLI (if I remember the cryptic
> switches).
> > On top of that now I have to deal with an opaque 5 or 6-digit patch id
> in my head.
> >
> > Compared to Github, Gitlab or Gerrit this is bullshit.
> >
>
>
> lets face it, it works very well. if you find it crappy then please
> provide consistent reasons why this is so.
>
> so far this thread has brought fwd that
>
> * it is crappy
> * Turrit does not work well
> * we think github is better
> * the version history gets lost
>
> the only valid argument i have seen so far is that the history gets
> lost. the rest is just web20 convenient feature requirements.
>
> currently having people look at every patch while merging it is very
> usefull and leads to a solid codebase.
>
> having the github "click and merge" stuff will lead to people "clicking
> and merging" and not reviewing it properly.
>
> i understand that some people love to upload their data to us based
> cloud services. but then again i would argue that this is a really illy
> thing to do for a whole number of reasons. first of all our dependence
> on that $corporation
>
> John
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