On 2024-02-26 15:12:39 -0000 (-0000), thywyn@hotmail.com wrote: [...]
And since it was brought up... I am also a newb with commiting to opensource and the whole opendev/gerrit thing is certainly mouch more daunting compared to contributing to projects on Github as an example.
As one of the maintainers of our code review and hosting systems, I'm always interested in feedback like this, since we strive to make it as efficient and useful as possible to our projects. A little context around this would certainly help though. When you say you are "a newb with commiting to opensource," do you mean you've also got zero experience with GitHub and are learning both at roughly the same time? Or is your observation that a platform you've not used yet is daunting compared to one you've already learned to use? Have you also used GitLab, Bitbucket, Pagure, Perforce, or any other non-GitHub code review workflows, and if so how many? What aspects, specifically, are daunting with respect to Gerrit? When there are things we can improve in that regard, we do try to contribute upstream to the Gerrit project in order to elevate the experience for our users. We expect that learning to use new tools can seem daunting, and want to make that experience as smooth as possible, but everyone has to start somewhere and without learning new things there is little opportunity for growth. We generally prefer to choose the best possible tools for the task at hand, rather than choosing an inferior tool simply so that users won't be burdened with the need to learn. Far too often we get feedback along the lines of "Gerrit is inconvenient" when what the person really means is "learning to use something new is inconvenient," and that's not terribly helpful. -- Jeremy Stanley