[flashrom] Proposed changes to flashrom hosting and workflow

[Nico Huber]

On 31.12.2015 19:18, Stefan Tauner wrote:
>> For those who missed it on IRC, Stefan (Reinauer) has proposed retiring SVN
>> and patch work in favor of Git and (likely) Gerrit + Jenkins. Maintaining
>> SVN and Patchwork represents a surprisingly large maintenance burden on top
>> of Git and Gerrit that coreboot uses. Additionally, many in the community
>> work around SVN's limitations by mirroring the project at places like
>> Github anyway.
> 
> My counterproposal is to use gitub instead of Gerrit.
>  - I really can't stand gerrit's interface.
>  - We (relatively) often get patches from one-time contributors which
>    is way easier on github because "everybody" has an account there and
>    knows how to work with it (and if not it is straight forward
>    compared to gerrit).
I don't think one-time contributors always have a github account. Also,
in most cases (I might be wrong here), one-time contributors don't care
much about a review, so we could just forward their patches to gerrit.
Can we not?

>  - The only reason to avoid github for me would be due to its
>    proprietary nature and related problems (lock-in etc).
>    Please give me other reasons if you prefer coreboot.org-hosted
>    gerrit over github.
> 
Just speaking for myself here. Also I might have a github account I
can't remember right now, my contributions to flashrom would be less
if I have to adapt to another (non-gerrit) workflow. Just a prediction,
I don't even like gerrit.

Nico