Re: Gerrit (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 18:22:45 EST


On Fri 2009-06-12 14:50:21, Brian Swetland wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Stefan
> Schmidt<stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I think the intent is to have a
> >> Gerrit instance to accept contributions.  I'll have to look into
> >> whether this can be done without signing the agreement.  Right
> >> now, I can't even contribute anything, so there are a lot of
> >> issues to work out.
> >
> > Gerrit is the Android review system? I'm only interested into the kernel and
> > especially running a mainline kernel on different devices. Anyway, a public
> > review process and some more informations on what you are working and how you
> > would like to bring it mainline would help here.
>
> Gerrit is a git patch review system that we (Google/Android) use for
> android development (kernel and otherwise). Some other folks like
> Qualcomm, and TI (see http://review.omapzoom.org/) have adopted it

Unfortunately, it seems quite unsuitable for kernel.

Do I understand it right that to submit kernel patches I'd have to
agree to "contributors agreement", and give up my copyright? No,
sorry, I don't think I want to do that.

(I may be willing to do that for Android proper -- after
studying the agreement carefully, but not for GPLed kernel
code).

Pavel
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