[LLVMdev] Phabricator and private reviews

[Owen Anderson]

I have to agree with Alp here.  I’ve seen a number of review threads that either seem to be missing emails or in which the emails arrive days in unintelligible orders.  I don’t know that we need to cut off use of it, but we need to prioritize resolving this issue.

—Owen


On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think it's all patches. I've had plenty of patches go up and
> get reviewed with the reviews going to the list lately.
> 
> I'm going to object to this proposal.
> 
> -eric
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
>> For whatever reason, patches posted to the Phabricator website still aren't
>> being sent to the mailing list, making it difficult for us to review them.
>> 
>> I've raised this issue a couple of times in the last few weeks.
>> 
>> In practice this has a detrimental effect to the development workflow
>> because it means that code is being seen only by a small group of
>> individuals who have web accounts. The code isn't hitting llvm-commits or
>> cfe-commits where the majority of code maintainers use the mailing lists for
>> review.
>> 
>> At this point I think Phabricator should be disabled and patches should be
>> send to the mailing lists *until* the technical issue is confirmed resolved.
>> 
>> It's really uncool that code is entering ToT through this back-channel -- I
>> appreciate that it might not be intentional, but every single patch that
>> gets committed this way is a real problem for the project.
>> 
>> Alp.
>> 
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