bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs

[Dmitry Gutov]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This is, of course, the PR system you find on Github and such sites.
>
> That's also the "patch queue management" I mentioned earlier.

Right. On GitHub, it's often also a decent platform for discussions.

> Because nobody has set such a thing up (and AFAICT Savannah doesn't
> have such a thing built-in, oddly enough).

It shouldn't be too hard, actually, to set up some code review tool,
such as Gerrit [0], Review Board [1] or Differential [2].

I think all of them support automatic merging of approved patches, or at
least make it reasonably easy. The last one seems to offer a lot of
options, at the cost of learning the whole Phabricator ecosystem.

What do you see as requirements for such a tool? Integration with
Savannah user database?

Do you like at least one of them?

I'd also welcome opinions from people who have experience working with
them, because honestly, I've only done in-browser code reviews
inside issue tracking tools, such as GitHub and GitLab.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
[1] https://www.reviewboard.org/
[2] http://phabricator.org/applications/differential/