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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Changes to our Git infrastructure
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2015-01-05 21:37:09
Message-ID: 3020249.17HFsekzyd () xps
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El Dilluns, 5 de gener de 2015, a les 22:26:24, Boudewijn Rempt va escriure:
> Well, _obviously_ reviewboard supports raising issues and adding comments
> , but neither facilitates actual conversation, i.e. discussion on what's
> up with a particular patch at a deeper level.
> 
> In short, what I meant is that as a tool to dicuss code changes,
> Reviewboard is a poor thing. It facilitates nit-picking, which is
> off-putting and useless, but at least gives the reviewer the feeling he's
> done his job, while it fails at making it easy to discuss the why,
> wherefore and how of a particular change.

Well, how would you want to have a proper discussion then?
What's your desired workflow/UI for it?
I see what you mean, but to me it seems more a misuse of the tool by the 
community, not a fault of the tool itself.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dilluns, 5 de gener de 2015, a les 18:40:54, Boudewijn Rempt va 
escriure:
> >> I do agree, btw, with Ian, that the current reviewboard workflow is badly
> >> broken and can be very discouraging. It doesn't support conversation
> > 
> > What do you mean it doesn't support conversation?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >  Albert

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