Re: Improve or change devel mailing-list for improve efficiency and spending less time, is this possible?

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>]

Hi,

On 30/09/2015 15:02, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 15:49 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> I still not found a good and "all-in-one" solution but I saw this open
>> source project: patchwork http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/
>> Seems interesting, is integrated with mailing list, now seems with
>> "basic features" but probably in future it could become great.
>> I same that many open source project already use it, has someone here
>> already tried it in other projects? If yes what do you think?
>
> I've used it in my role as a u-boot custodian and I think it is "meh". It's
> ok but it really requires everyone (i.e. all maintainers) to buy into using
> it and to be disciplined about doing so and it does need frequent tending
> and gardening otherwise it tends to accumulate cruft.
>
> IME the command line clients leave something to be desired and the workflow
> for actually applying a patch from p/w is rather clumsy, in particular
> there is no easy way to access git-am's --reject option, other than using a
> temporary file.
>
> I don't think it would be a good fit for us.

I'm wondering if a tool like Phabricator [1] would help here. It offers 
both interface and command line [2] to review, download a series...

I've just started to use it with FreeBSD and I find very handy for the 
contributors as you can keep track of comment addressed and see 
difference between revision...

I've added Roger who is using it more often than me.

Regards,

[1] http://phabricator.org/
[2] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist/

-- 
Julien Grall