On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:42 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Diederik van Liere dvanliere@gmail.com wrote:
My concern is not about the UI of Gerrit, I know it's popular within WMF to say that it's UI sucks but I don't think that's the case and even if it was an issue it's only minor.
We are changing from a CR system where everything (or atleast almost everything) was displayed on a single (and non confusing) page to a system that to plainly put it, is a clusterfuck of confusing (And i'm known for choosing the more time consuming/evil/painful methods of doing things),
I'll be the first to admit that Gerrit may not be the single most intuitive piece of software. But to call it a clusterfuck is doing it a disservice. The learning curve is steeper than our home-grown CodeReview tool, but I honestly don't think it's insurmountable.
Learning a new tool and new workflow is jarring, but I think it's a feeling that will pass slightly as time goes on. That's part of the reason we pushed the decision about Phabricator out by a few months-- it allows us to get some hands-on experience with Gerrit. By that point I hope we'll be moving past the initial Git learning curve, and I think it'll allow us to make a better decision about code review tools without being clouded by git-isms (some of which will remain regardless of the tool in question).
Sadly you only get one first impression, and Gerrit doesn't do a good job at that :(
-Chad