[PySide] Open Gerrit to public (Was: Call for help: regression bugs to be fixed)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Matti Airas <matti.p.airas at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 02.03.2012 11:57, ext anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Matti Airas<matti.p.airas at nokia.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02.03.2012 10:55, ext anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any progress with opening Gerrit to general public?
>>>
>>> Gerrit *is* open to the general public. The issue was anonymous access;
>>> that
>>> is now provided using the by mirroring the Gerrit repo to a read-only
>>> repository at Gitorious. This is the same setup as for all other Qt repos
>>> (and indeed, the mirroring is done by Qt, so there's little chance of it
>>> breaking up without anyone noticing.
>>
>> Well, practical question then - how can I view the links below in
>> Gitorious?
>
> Hint: A bit of constructive attitude will bring you far.

I am as constructive as possible. The contributor agreement already
puts a high entry barrier for the new people, and further restrictions
on accessibility of developer information will do no good.

The problem with Gerrit links is that they are posted to the mailing
list. This list is read by users, who learn PySide. These users are
potential contributors. They might not had the need to write to the
list, so they probably read it from the web, and are not even
subscribed. If we say that 20% of users read PySide from the web,
that's a pretty big amount.

Let's assume that 80% of readers are subscribed. About 10% of them
have Jira account. About 50% of them are even logged in (because Jira
doesn't allow to OAuth/OpenID logins - that's a problem). So only 4%
can view those Gerrit links. I think that's a pretty  low percentage
to take this issue seriously.

> Gitorious just mirrors the repositories, not the code review functionality.
> To view the commits, login to Gerrit.
>
> As the login prompt states, create an account in bugreports.qt-project.org
> (I believe you already have one). Then, use those credentials to login to
> Gerrit.

Why not just open Gerrit to anonymous read-only?

>> BTW, are GitHub repos mirrored by Qt too? -- anatoly t.
>
> No, the GitHub repos are unofficial and not part of PySide project setup.

But if they are more convenient and stable that those provided by Qt
Project, why can't Qt Project sync to them?
--
anatoly t.