Re: Considering Gerrit for CFs

2013/2/7 Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> On 2013-02-06 13:25:31 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Mind you, when I explained our current CF review workflow for the SF
>> ReviewFest last year, the attendees thought I was insane. It's kept me
>> from doing more reviewfests. Our current workflow and tooling is
>> definitely a serious obstacle to gettng more reviewers. Seems like a
>> good topic for the developer meeting.
>
> I personally feel that the CF process isn't limited by technicalities
> like the commitfest UI or by the lack of random reviewers. Its limited
> by the amount of available reviewer time of people with in-depth
> knowledge of pg and committer bandwith.
> Trying to solve that problem via technical means doesn't seem likely to
> work out very well.

+1

Pavel

>
>> >> The existing Gerrit community would be keen to have the PostgreSQL
>> >> project as a major user, though, and would theoretically help with
>> >> modification needs. Current major users are OpenStack, Mediawiki,
>> >> LibreOffice and QT.
>
> There's also android as a rather major user...
>
>> > I just took a quick look at their system, and when they start talking
>> > about requirements in the 100's of Gb of RAM, 24 core machines and
>> > SSD, I get scared :) But that's to "scale" it - doesn't mention when
>> > you need to do anything like that. I'm assuming we'd be tiny.
>
> Well, with gerrit you do far more work inside the application in
> comparison to what we are doing today in the CF app, so part of this
> probably is just that more work is running through it...
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund
>
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