On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Juliusz Gonera jgonera@wikimedia.org wrote:
I wouldn't be that optimistic, maybe it would slightly increase. Having an account is one of the factors but I wouldn't underestimate user friendliness. The first time I tried to find the URL to clone a repo in gerrit it took me probably around a minute. On GitHub it probably took me 5 seconds.
And I wouldn't be too quick to celebrate the increased vendor lock-in of a large percentage of the open source community into an ecosystem of partially proprietary tools and services (the GitHub engine itself, the official GitHub applications, etc.). Gerrit and other open source git repo management and code review tools are one of the best hopes for the development of a viable alternative. Unlike GitHub, Gerrit can be improved by its users over time, and the issues that frustrate and annoy us about it _can_ be fixed (and indeed, many have been).
Yes to better pull request management from GitHub. But let's stop complaining about Gerrit, and instead get both functionality and UX issues into their bug tracker, and help get them fixed.
Erik