Chad wrote:
Also, if anyone tells me that upstream is not active enough, I ask you to please look at a commit I made 2 days ago[0]. I know it wasn't earth- shattering, or even really important. What was important, is that it was reviewed and merged in *less than a minute* without any action on my part. All upstream contributions receive quite a bit of feedback, and things get merged into master every single day. I talk with the Gerrit guys constantly, and they've been nothing but supportive and helpful in both my questions and helping to resolve our issues.
That made me go to some bugs I experienced at the beginning, and look if they were thus fixed or not.
Issue 899: Tab to password field doesn't work if diff page is in background Filed: Apr 7, 2011 - http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=899
The bug is still open, although it got fixed. Maybe independently, perhaps unexpectedly due to rewriten code. It took ~1 year to fix since being filed.
Issue 1300: No history of removal actions Filed: Mar 25, 2012 - http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1300
Pristine bug.
Bug 35468 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35468 Filed 2012-03-25 - Still happening.
The funny thing is that it is happening on gerrit.wikimedia.org but not on https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com or https://android-review.googlesource.com
So although they may be very responsive to patches, it may not be so easy to get the bugs solved (other than doing so ourselves, which as said, is not simple).
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).
Which is really annoying when you don't start from the home page. If I'm signing in from a change, that's because I want to comment/review on that change, not to go to a dashboard where it isn't even listed.
Please do. I file every bug upstream as well, after it's been filed in our BZ.
Sure. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38760
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.
I don't feel comfortable with it. Too much magic, probably. It would benefit from having an interace like bugzilla advanced search, even if it gets coverted to the operators.