From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Helwig Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Gerrit Code Review 2.0.3 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:14 -0800 Message-ID: <8c9a060902171306w5926c20ej439489de450e04f5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090217011256.GA23314@spearce.org> <1976ea660902162311q12e11ec5g7a43ab637186985e@mail.gmail.com> <20090217151838.GI18525@spearce.org> <8c9a060902170813ie8f5bc1gfed53e4f31f64c23@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Frank Li , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 17 22:08:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LZXAc-0002Wu-Q0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:07:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752566AbZBQVGS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:06:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752407AbZBQVGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:06:17 -0500 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.26]:33005 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbZBQVGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:06:16 -0500 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so1690009qwi.37 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6QZKMMRlfDUd7ryHmZdnKnFTJ8hKvix7qtuLeh2pdoY=; b=wi3aQDQufokzbP7x9QbVbrAEymc8f/xCj3Xr/+tI6K2+k67Lfu3f1D0z0NustEXGfQ +xUGGG5yZbIw1gp+bSqEJw6p7NUHlCjAoO8Tgh6Bu0iWz1A1XaNnfWbMfuzRBSWR5KfI wxg67nHAhl39RLIWWYogctnBHd8Cn6rJ7AyGQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qSO4kfgYJCElVcz4Bd4NatC55ijS+QC26JjHiFH6rceDstzyCoqYBUNcE0+LllWCuL DrJGOOi+tTrmB6g6yYoO7bOWSmmQM/efsZYRQrx39c8Es4TT+ErEtX60fWBHm/EpHO2W p49jvqg1A6Qb1Qyjjn2k2KoGgQMSZsLLaGpl8= Received: by 10.224.28.143 with SMTP id m15mr3894895qac.82.1234904774953; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:44, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jacob Helwig wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:18, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> > Gerrit is known to not work in Internet Explorer. As an open source >> > developer, my primary desktop system runs Linux. My portable laptops >> > all run Mac OS X, because its shiny. I have no system capable of >> > running Internet Explorer, nor do I desire to send dollars towards >> > Redmond in order to obtain an OS license in order to do so. >> > >> > Something is busted in the IE AJAX code used by Gerrit Code Review. >> > I'm guessing that instead of making the data available to the AJAX >> > callback, IE wants to save it as a file on disk. No clue why. >> > And due to the lack of IE, I am unable to debug the problem myself. >> > I am waiting for someone who really cares about using IE to debug >> > it and contribute the patch back. >> > >> >> I've found IEs4Linux helpful for debugging IE-only issues under Linux. >> >> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page >> >> I don't recall, off hand, if it'll provide IE 7 (and the site isn't >> working for me right now, so I can't confirm this). It does provide >> IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, however. > > If I understand Shawn (and the motto "scratch your own itch") correctly, > Shawn was not so much interested in being pointed to a way of running IE > himself, but more in people who absolutely want to run IE themselves to go > and fix the issues. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > Oh, I understand "scratch your own itch", but there's also a difference between unable to, and unwilling to. ;-) I wouldn't have questioned it, or said anything, if it was simply put as: "Known issue, but we don't use IE, so it's not a priority for us. Patches welcome." (Note: I'm not saying that Shawn should be willing to, just that he's not "unable" to. I also don't claim to know the full nuances of any possible licensing issues.)