Re: Considering Gerrit for CFs

On 2/8/13 10:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> I suggest, build it and they will come, or not.  Let people push their
>> patches into Gerrit and attach the reviews to the commit fest items.  If
>> reviewers then want to use that, it's their choice.  We'll see how it goes.
> 
> I might be misunderstanding what you're suggesting here, but it sounds
> like this would imply that reviews could end up off in a Gerrit repo
> somewhere, never getting posted to the mailing lists at all.  That would
> make me sad.  The list archives are this project's community memory,
> and I have every expectation that they'll still be around and useful
> when Gerrit is forgotten.  I don't object to people using their
> tools-of-choice to perform reviewing, but we need some way of making
> sure that the reviews get archived.

Gerrit sends me an email every times something happens, so I think this
is not going to be a problem.

What it doesn't support AFAICT is sending emails *in*, but I don't see
that as a requirement.