Re: [edk2-announce][RFC] Collaboration Software

[Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>]

On Friday, 16 November 2018 19:42:51 MST Sean Brogan via edk2-devel wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I like the github teams option for discussion as it is just there, free, and
> easy.  It integrates nicely with all other parts of github.  Notifications
> are supported for those that want email.   Is there any reason this path
> doesn't get used now as a test since tianocore is already in github?  

I do wonder why there aren't more _big_ open source projects using Github if 
it _is_ there, free and easy to use. I'm aware lots and lots use it for 
hosting their repositories, but I'm not aware of many that use it for code 
reviews, discussions etc.

I found that CoreBoot uses Gerrit: https://review.coreboot.org/q/status:open

GNOME evaluated Phabricator and GitLab (but not GitHub, because "GitHub is not 
Free Software, of couse, which makes it unacceptable to many in the GNOME 
community") - https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure .
They decided to go with GitLab:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-May/msg00051.html

One comment from a user on the GNOME evaluation (https://wiki.gnome.org/
Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure/Comments) said:

"We tried migrating libnice to phabricator.freedesktop.org and it was a bit of 
a disaster as the "drive-by" contribution process is horrible with 
Phabricator, requiring to either download a tool or copy-paste patches into a 
webpage. Upstream Phabricator is also very hostile to the github style of 
reviews (where you can review small patches, not everything squashed into one 
SVN style). Even Bugzilla with Splinter is nicer for new contributors.. So 
let's go with GitLab. That said, all of Collabora's Phabricator tools are 
already public. ? OlivieCrete"

-- 
Rebecca