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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Making your project more openŠhowto enable Gerrit

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I really like the flow that Gerrit provides. Pushing commits is easier than
> creating patchs and uploading them. However, I find with Gerrit (or our use
> of Gerrit) is that the discussion is now spread across multiple mediums.
> Bugs / feature requests come in on bugzilla where some discussion happens. A
> change-set then appears are Gerrit where more discussion happens. Further
> requirements / ideas appear back on the bug and suddenly the change is
> updated. I find it difficult to follow the discussion. With bugzilla (or our
> use of it), all discussions (from conception, to requirements, to design, to
> implementation, to delivery) happen in one continuos thread.
>
> I'm not sure how the more experienced Gerrit users deal with this.

Gerrit developers try to do most discussion on the change itself, and
avoid using the mailing list or the bug tracker to discuss something.
But we have a similar opinion that the fractured discussion is not
useful.

It might be interesting to think about having some sort of plugin in
Gerrit that can grab comments from the related bug and include them
interleaved by timestamp with Gerrit events, so the entire discussion
is visible in one place on the Gerrit web UI.


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