Re: GNU GRUB maintenance

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 08.10.2015 16:52, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello, all. I'm sorry for not being available to do enough maintenance
>> for GRUB in last time but I was overbooked. Yet there is a good news. At
>> Google there is a 20% project and GRUB has been approved as 20% project
>> for me. The goal is to have 2.02 released before the end of this year.
>> Other than the raw lack of time there is another issue which makes
>> maintenance difficult: inefficient VCS.
> 
> VCS is actually OK. The project of size Linux kernel seems to work
> well using pull request e-mails. The disadvantages are
> 
> - contributors must have repository available via Internet
> - contributors are trusted to actually submit pull request for branch
> that was reviewed
> - it needs to be done locally and pushed
> 
>>                                                       It requires me or 
>> someone with
>> privileges manually copy the patch. What other systems would be ok? It
>> obviously has to be a free software and hosted on free software-friendly
>> hosting. It also has to have an efficient 1-click merge (so that someone
>> with privileges can get any patch submitted to the system merged in
>> couple of clicks).
>>
>>
> 
> It does not like like we have much choice. If we speak about free
> external hosting, this is probably github, gerrithub, gitlab. I do not
> know if any of them is considered friendly enough by FSF.
> 
> If we speak about self hosting, then it is probably gerrit and
> reviewboard (I wish we could join KDE reviewboard, but grub hardly can
> be called KDE application ... :) )
> 
> I am not thrilled by github workflows. From what I could gather
> gerrithub looks more appealing, but would love to hear from someone
> who actually used both.
> 
I spoke with Stefan Reinauer and he proposed to host us at
review.coreboot.org if we don't generate too much traffic. I had
positive experiences with their gerrit except that some functions are
broken on mobile. I'd like to be able to review from phone but it's not
a hard requirement.
> One problem is that none of them apparently allows reviewing by
> E-Mail. This worked (and probably works, just I'm no more involved)
> quite well in KDE reviewboard. This means all review must be done via
> web. For me it is rather disadvantage.
That's a disadvantage but I believe that being able to get changes
merged quickly outweights this disadvantage.
> Also merged requests are
> removed, which means history and past discussions are no more present.
They're kept on review.coreboot.org case
> Which again is better using e-mail review.
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