[Kde-scm-interest] Integrating Reviewboard with git branches

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:34:45PM +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> That might be the root of the misunderstanding here -- I'm not
> proposing to let Gerrit be the gateway; I'm proposing setting it up as
> a standalone service for code review.
>
i don't see how this could work and still be useful.

the qt brisbane site had a gerrit setup which was review-only - the
changes were simply abandoned after review. this is workflow-wise not
much better than reviewboard with some surrounding scripts. given that
rb is superior to gerrit as a pure review tool, this doesn't look useful
to me at all.

and having gerrit push to a separate authoritative repo is neither
useful (what for?) nor realistic (you'd need to implement two-way sync,
and would still risk merge conflicts due to the inherently racy nature
of such a setup).

given that gerrit is a perfectly functional git server, i don't see why
anyone sane would bother with working around it.