Hi Daniel,
I admittedly am very loosely familiar with the email based reveiw flow, my experience if from many years back, and I don't have fond memories of it :)
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 10:28 AM Daniel Gröber dxld@darkboxed.org wrote:
The email-based git workflow (which GH copied fairly well) does things right here by having the "default" be for people to get notified of all project activity and sending reviews being as easy as an email reply.
Isn't triggering an email as easy in gerrit? All you need to do is to add reviewer(s) in the 'Reply' popup and click 'send'. Or is your concern that the email is not sent to the wide audience by default?
Another is this: Something I do when I get to know a project is subscribe
to the ML or equivalent and passively watch patches, reviews and banter to get a feel for how things are done here. I have no idea how you would do this with gerrit other than by actively adding yourself to CC on patches (which I feel is too visible to really be an equivalent) or actively deathscrolling through the patch lists, which I'm (personally) not going to remember to do periodically.
Just in case this is not known: in gerrit you can subscribe to receive emails about all patches sent to a git repo: you click on the cog in the top right, then on 'Notifications' on the next screen, and then you can configure what emails on what repositories you want to receive. Would this address your concern?
Cheers, -vb