Comments (2)

By Adam, May 12, 2013 12:47 pm

Julien Danjou recently posted a thought-provoking rant about GitHub’s pull request workflow implementation. His main point is essentially that Gerrit provides a more sophisticated review system. Of course I’m not going to disagree with that 😉

I am generally a big fan of Julien’s work and I’m very excited for the future of OpenStack Ceilometer of which he is the current PTL. However, in this case I think his views are understandably biased towards review workflows on very large projects like OpenStack, and I found the length of the rant slightly disproportionate to the actual substance of the points made within it. Somewhat ironically, AFAICS his blog’s own review process could use some improvement due to comments currently being disabled 😉 So here are my thoughts.

Disclaimer: currently I use GitHub for reviews more regularly than Gerrit, so my views are likely to be biased at least as much as Julien’s, but in the opposite direction 😉

Continue reading 'in partial defense of GitHub’s review system'»