[jgit-dev] Webmaster wants to get rid of Gerrit

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

webmaster opened the issue

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=577152

since they want to get rid of Gerrit in favor of gitlab or github.

I would personally prefer to continue using Gerrit for several reasons:

• I clearly prefer the commit-centric review style Gerrit implements over branch-centric PRs or MRs
• I don't want to lose all the invaluable review comments we collected during the last 12 years developing in Gerrit.
• Gerrit runs on JGit and we should eat our own dog food
• I am a Gerrit maintainer (so I am biased)

What's your opinion?

Options if we want to continue using Gerrit and webmaster doesn't provide it anymore:

• Take over the Eclipse gerrit instance on a project managed vserver at Eclipse and run it ourselves. That's how we started using Gerrit at Eclipse before the webmaster took it over.
• Move our repositories to a public managed Gerrit site. GerritForge signaled they would be willing to host a Gerrit instance for Eclipse.

-Matthias