Call for Discussion: New Project: Skara -- investigating source code management options for the JDK sources

[Mario Torre]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 8:02 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 28/07/2018 4:31 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> If this is just a move from mercural to git with all else staying the
>> same, I am indifferent. I like mercurial but git is pretty similar.
>> Moving to git may make life easier for all those people who manage
>> downstream repos in git. Git may also (need to check that) run faster
>> under Windows Cygwin, which would be a nice bonus.
>>
>> However, I am apprehensive about a move away from the current review
>> process (mailing lists). The proposal mentioned "different providers"
>> which I assume would mean GitHub?
>>
>> For me, the review discussions on the mailing lists - with all their
>> combined knowledge, wisdom and civility - are a huge wealth in itself.
>> Close in value, to me, to the source code itself. I am afraid that
>> moving to a different review platform would endanger all that.
>
>
> +1 on that. With a simple email-based review process (plus webrevs hosted on
> cr.o.j.n) I can easily scan dozens of incoming changes to see if they may be
> something I need to dive more deeply into. That is all lost if reviews
> happens inside some other system - even if a notification email is generated
> when such reviews are initiated.
>
> Changes to the review processes/tools should be kept a separate as possible
> from the selection of an underlying SCM.

Yes, my point exactly, I can live with git if that's the consensus,
but not with a GitHub style process.

Cheers,
Mario

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Mario Torre
Associate Manager, Software Engineering
Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com>
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