Antoine Musso wrote:
Le 02/04/13 04:39, MZMcBride a écrit :
I'm concerned that Gerrit actively discourages discussion currently.
So do not use it? We have lists, wiki and private emails.
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I would prefer having all the code and implementations discussion where the code is, aka in Gerrit. Leaving Bugzilla for confirming the bug resolution or talk about possible policy issues.
You're being a little silly here. :-)
I think I agree with you that keeping the change and the related discussion together would be nice. The question is: how do we make Gerrit less painful to use?
Would it be possible to have Gerrit import a JavaScript page from MediaWiki.org (e.g., "MediaWiki:Gerrit.js")? This might allow dedicated users to override some of the default behavior (such as the block-level comment auto-collapsing) or add new functionality (such as a "reply" link similar to Bugzilla's).
The basic misconception is that people attempt to comment the code using the 'cover message' feature when they should really use the inline commenting feature. The cover message is only intended to summarize what you have commented inline, that is also what is shown in the mail notification.
Gerrit supports both inline commenting and block-level commenting. The inline commenting is actually even more difficult to find and follow than block-level commenting, in my opinion.
MZMcBride