On 2013-03-14 11:20 PM, "Tyler Romeo" <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through
GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub
account*.
My browser is always logged into GitHub, and it's
at the point where I can
casually just fork a project and begin working on it, whereas with Gerrit
you need to request an account.
Like I said before, if you know how to use Git, you know how to use Gerrit
(and the contra-positive is true as well). The primary thing holding
people
back is that it's confusing and not user friendly
enough to make an
account
and get working. Imagine if people could sign into
Gerrit using their
Google accounts like Phabricator allows. I can guarantee participation
would skyrocket.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
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I can state from personal experiance that creating an account was not the
hard part (particularly because I had my account created for me ;) and
there definitly was a hard part learning gerrit. I have no idea how
easy/hard it is to do things on github as I don't have an account there but
at the very least they probably have more usability engineers than gerrit
has.
Svn had a much harder account creation procedure, but I personally felt the
learning curve was much lower (or maybe I wss just more familar with the
ideas involved.)
Anyhow, point of this ramble: gerrit is difficult for newbies (or at least
when I was. Many others have said similar things). Well we certainly want
to keep gerrit, its important to recognize this and mitigate the
difficulties where it is reasonable to do so.
-bawolff