<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I've been following this thread for a while and would like to add that<br></div>I too found the gerritt workflow discouraging enough that I (and fellow work colleagues) have decided<br>to maintain a privately forked VTK repo rather than contributing back to the community. I would echo<br>
</div><div>most of the sentiments already expressed by D. DeMarle, D. Gobbi, and J.B. Although I do miss<br>the old CVS workflow days, and I have come to embrace github, I'll be holding back on contributing<br>to VTK until the commit process is simplified, more responsive, and expedient.<br>
<br></div></div>best to all of you,<br>Dean<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM, David E DeMarle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">One thing we can hope to do better next time to not alienate the old timers (including myself).<div><br>
</div><div>* The transition from CVS to today's gerrit workflow was necessarily long, but there were frequent adjustments along the way as we learned and built up the infrastructure. Every change in the process meant retraining all of the (self interested and busy) contributors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Whatever our end goal is with the new infrastructure - we need to work harder to minimize the number of changes to the commit process, to keep the contribution process as dead simple as it can be, and to describe the mechanics clearly and loudly.</div>
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<div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>
Phone: 518-881-4909</div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Brad King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.king@kitware.com" target="_blank">brad.king@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 08/28/2014 11:07 AM, Sean McBride wrote:<br>
> 1) a 'commits' email list, like other projects. Where you get an<br>
> email for every merge into master.<br>
<br>
</div>We've had one of these since CVS days:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-commit" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-commit</a><br>
<br>
It still works.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
-Brad<br>
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