Re: [RFC] switch to Gerrit

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Freitag, den 07.02.2020, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 5:09 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 07.02.2020, 12:09 +0100 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> > > [RFC] Gerrit for LilyPond
> > > 
> > > Right now, LilyPond's source code is hosted on Savannah [1], our issues
> > > are tracked on SourceForge [2] and we review patches on Rietveld [3].
> > > There is no synchronization between the systems and a contributor is
> > > required to synchronize the review and the associated issue.
> > > 
> > > I propose to start using self-hosted Gerrit for doing code
> > > reviews and code review status tracking. Gerrit has integrated Git
> > > hosting, and integrated code viewing
> > 
> > Hm, a presentation by Google itself claims that "Gerrit does not
> > provide [...] Code Browsing, Code Search" [1] If I look on GerritHub,
> > it has links to GitHub [2] and that's something we don't want to use as
> > far as I understand.
> > 
> > 1: 
> > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C73UgQdzZDw0gzpaEqIC6SPujZJhqamyqO1XOHjH-uk/edit#slide=id.g4d6c16487b_1_140
> > 2: https://review.gerrithub.io/admin/repos/q/filter:lilypond
> > 
> 
> The Gerrit code per se does not have browsing, but it has hooks to expose a 
> viewer in the UI. Some sites use the CGit viewer, but there is also gitiles, 
> which is a plugin, and will also respect Gerrit permissions. Gitiles source 
> code is here: 
> 
>   https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/gitiles/
> 
> that link is served from gitiles.  Gitiles is a "core" plugin for gerrit.
> 
> I filed a bug about the code viewer on gerrithub (the URLs are malformed.)

Did this lead somewhere? I still see "Repository Browser: GitHub" on
link [2] above.

Also I just saw the following in the initial message:
> Gerrit as hosted by GerritForge requires a GitHub account. If this is
> an issue, I volunteer to manage a self-hosted Gerrit instance.

I firmly believe that self-hosting is not the right approach unless
absolutely necessary. Do you know of any other hosted Gerrit instance
that comes with its own authentication service?

Jonas

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