[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] RFC on choice of tool for patch review

[Alex J Lennon]

On 12/08/2015 10:45, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 10:25 +0100, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 10:17 +0100, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>>> We've been having a discussion on a way forward to manage patches 
>>> and
>>> code review and would like to open this up for discussion to agree 
>>> a 
>>> way
>>> forward.
>> There's http://patchwork.openembedded.org/. I'm not sure who 
>> maintains
>> it, nor if anyone uses it, but patches sent to the mailing list end 
>> up
>> there.
>>
>> OOI who are "we" in this context? What benefits would a change bring?
> I managed to miss both the [yocto] and [meta-raspberrypi] tags on this
> mail, apologies for that. I guess that "we" are the meta-raspberrypi
> maintainers.

Yes :)

Andrei (maintainer) was using Gerrit but that went away for reasons
outlined in the preceding email.

Some visibility and control of the review process has been lost as a
result and so it was suggested we kick off a conversation on what
tooling to use to restore that.

> Still, the patchwork instance may be an option? The meta-freescale
> layers appear to be using it.

Many thanks!

Cheers,

Alex