[ClusterLabs Developers] [RFC] Time to migrate authoritative source forge elsewhere?

Adam Spiers aspiers at suse.com
Fri Jun 8 13:44:22 UTC 2018


Jan Pokorný <jpokorny at redhat.com> wrote:
>On 07/06/18 11:10 +0000, Nils Carlson wrote:
>> The fundamental unit of review in Gitlab is the merge-request, requesting
>> that a branch be merged into another. This works very well in practice. You
>> can configure a regex for branch names and only allow users to push to
>> branches with a prefix like "contributions/", making all other branches
>> "protected", i.e. prevent direct pushes.
>>
>> The code-review is good, but could be better. Every time you update the
>> branch (either amending a commit or pushing a new commit) this creates a new
>> "version" of the merge-request that you can diff against previous versions.
>
>I must admit, this would be a killer feature for me (see the above
>rant) and best trade-off if the willingness to try/adopt Gerrit
>is unlikely.

Ooh that is indeed a killer feature!  I hadn't spotted that with
GitLab yet.  That puts it way ahead of GitHub in the code review
space.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/999



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