Phabricator: All repositories registered - upcoming workflow changes

[Luigi Toscano]

On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 10:31:44 CET Francis Herne wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to reply-all and only sent to kdevelop-devel...
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> Hi,
> 
> First off, there's a lot of postponed, or at least possibly-useful,
> work on ReviewBoard which would be lost. Some of this is from newish
> contributors who might be discouraged - e.g. the author of
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129589/ mentioned on IRC the other
> day that he's hoping to complete it at some point.


I think that we need some cleanup on the old reviews (Albert Astal Cid started 
some time ago) and more important strongly tell new users (and old users) to 
use Phabricator. I don't think that anyone wants to lose the work, but if a 
review has not been touched in a few months maybe it's time to see it is still 
interesting. 
If we start doing this now (or yesterday), the flow of new patches in 
reviewboard should decrease quickly.


> For already-committed work:
> 
> Even if the mail-archiving infrastructure was in a useful state, this
> would be inconvenient - there are more than a *thousand* REVIEW: tags in
> kdev* project commits, plus several comments with "see <review url>".
> 
> Many mailing lists aren't logged at all, there's no internal
> search with only patchy Google indexing, and 'browsing' the archive
> means clicking through arbitrarily-grouped mails by date with minimal
> threading. That's not merely inconvenient, it's going to cause a
> catastrophic loss of information.

I agree as well that the review information should be kept online.

-- 
Luigi