On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:42 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It feels a bit like buying a car that has no steering wheel. I didn't really want to overrun our bug tracker with Gerrit bugs, but I can certainly file a few against it.
Please do. I file every bug upstream as well, after it's been filed in our BZ.
I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I really don't understand how such a basic feature is missing (which is what I meant by "how does anyone use Gerrit?"). There's a dashboard feature that accepts user IDs to view a particular user's contributions to Gerrit, but without an index (or some other way to match IDs to usernames), I really have no idea how you're supposed to be able to look at a particular user's contributions.
Just as a minor nitpick--those dashboards aren't meant to be viewed by anyone other than the author themselves (which is why it's the main page when you login, as well as the default page for My -> Commits).
There's a couple of changes coming in 2.5 to this regard: 1) Personal dashboards will now be private -- the proper way to query someone's work is the "owner:" query in the search box. 2) With 2.5, you'll also be able to save "dashboards" or "queries" for pages you commonly look up (or just want to remember for later)
A quick note on the search field: it's super-powerful. I know I've pointed at the docs before, but I really encourage you to read them[0] if you're the type of user who likes doing these sorts of interesting queries. Also, in the merge queue for upstream right now (I'm praying it makes it into 2.5 before the branch) is search suggestions [1]. This should make it wayyy easier to find things you're looking for.
-Chad
[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/Documentation/user-search.html [1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/36932/