2013/9/22 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
IMHO this is solving a problem that doesn't exist. Using LilyDev
(possibly
in a Virtual Machine) provides git and git-cl. Git allows a developer to
create a patch with 2 commands: git commit and git format-patch. That
can
be uploaded to Rietveld with a single command (possibly 2 commands,
depending on what you were doing earlier). When the review is passed, it
can be pushed to staging with 4 simple commands; or mailed to -devel for
any
active developer without push access - these are very rare.
How hard is that?
Hard. It takes at least an hour (more probably 2 hours) to install
all this stuff and find and read relevant information (when i was
installing lilydev my first time, it took me half of the night). And
don't forget additional 5 GB of space you need for the VM, and that
you have to use a completely new, unfamiliar environment (i.e. a new
OS).
Compare it to something like github (i'm not saying we should use
github, that's just an example) when it takes 2 minutes and you can do
everything in your browser (obviously, i'm speaking about small
patches). To me, the difference is obvious.
Janek