Better tools for kernel developers

Posted Feb 7, 2020 5:53 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Better tools for kernel developers by marcH
Parent article: Better tools for kernel developers

> The workflow is different and I'm certainly not pretending Gerrit would work for the kernel. Still, it's worth nothing the number of commits per month is in the same range (and the CI in a different league) despite Gerrit being one of the grand-daddies. Worst kept secret: a centralized^H database scales better because...

After second thought, I don't see why you couldn't have one code review database per subsystem and pull requests between them. The kernel already has multiple mailing-lists after all. While desirable, they wouldn't even need to be all "locked-in" in the same software.