[Reviewers] Recommending Phabricator

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Thu Feb 8 12:03:19 UTC 2018


On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:54:39 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> One of the changes I made was to recommend Phabricator over emailing
> patches. I did this because I think Phabricator is more friendly to new
> contributors and provides a gateway for new contributors getting more
> involved.

I hope not advertising Phabricator more until its email interface gets fixed.
Proper threading and inline-reply are must IMO.

> In addition, I think the time has come for more of Mercurial's core
> contributors to transition from email to Phabricator.

I thought that was a temporary issue of email infrastructure at Google?

> As a reviewer, I've noticed I'm biasing to looking at Phabricator first
> then falling back to Patchwork if I still want to do reviews. Phabricator
> is just a more pleasant experience for me as both a reviewer and a
> contributor.

I do truly the opposite. Ignoring almost all Phabricator emails, and pick
random patches, which I would have to review, from Yadda using phabread.



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