On 2013-03-14 11:20 PM, "Tyler Romeo" tylerromeo@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.
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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