[Insight-developers] Gerrit Open Topics Noise

[Bill Lorensen]

Marcus,

I also find the intermingling of VTK and ITK annoying. Especially for
someone like me that works on both projects. The other day I checkout
a topic from ITK into VTK (they were both development scripts with the
same name). I could not understand why it took so long!

Bill

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Hans Johnson <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> First:  I think that gerrit has the potential to be VERY beneficial to the
>> ITK development efforts.
>>
>> However, it could easily become a deterrent to expanding the developer
>> community.
>>
>> As a gatekeeper, it is of paramount important that it is 1) fair, 2) quick
>> for both rejections and acceptance, and 3) not a bottle neck holding up a
>> lot of development.
>>
>> Here are some of my complaints/concerns about gerrit:
>>
>> There are too many open topics that are
>>
>>        a) Not actively being worked on
>
> They should be merged or abandoned after some amount of time.
>
>>
>>         b) In the wrong state (and I do not have access rights to change
>> them to abandoned or to fix them)
>>
> Sorry, this slipped in my queue - I just took care of it now.
>
>>
>>         c) Claim to be ready to merge, but only through teleconference
>> backdoor information has this been waiting
>>
> I will leave this one for others.
>
>>
>>     2.   Poluted by VTK and SimpleITK patches.  I only care about ITK
>> work, and the rest is noise that needs to be sifted through to get to the
>> ITK stuff.
>>
>
> You can simply bookmark ITK if that is all you are interested in,
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#q,status:open+project:ITK,n,z
> We could add a forwarding URL such as review.itk.org etc that would make
> this the default view. You can actually watch the project(s) you are
> interested in if you would like to be emailed when new patches are submitted
> too.
> Marcus
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