[Mesa-dev] Thoughts after hitting 100 merge requests?

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Jason Ekstrand (2019-01-11 09:05:21)
> I'm putting my own thoughts in a reply for some reason.  Here's what I've seen.
> 
>  1. I really like GitLab "discussions".  It provides a very good way for both
> the author and the reviewers to keep track of what review comments have been
> dealt with and what comments are still outstanding.
> 
>  2. GitLab is currently missing a good way to comment on commit messages which
> makes giving review tags rather painful.  There is a GitLab issue opened about
> this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38602
> 
>  3. GitLab has a bug regarding per-commit comments where they tend to get lost
> while you're looking at the commit itself: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/
> gitlab-ce/issues/53175
> 
>  4. At least two of those merge requests were small bug fixes by brand new
> contributors who I've never seen on the mailing list.
> 
>  5. There's no way with gitlab for Reviewed-by tags to get automatically
> applied as part of the merging process.  This makes merging a bit more manual
> than it needs to be but is really no worse than it was before.
> 
> Ok, there you have my thoughts.  I'd be happy to hear others.
> 
> --Jason
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:57 AM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> 
>     All,
> 
>     The mesa project has now hit 100 merge requests (36 are still open).  I
>     (and I'm sure others) would be curious to hear people's initial thoughts on
>     the process.  What's working well?  What's not working?  Is it total fail
>     and should we go back to mailing lists?
> 
>     --Jason
> 

Your assessment matches pretty closely with mine.

Dylan
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