Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] [boost] More cool free github tooling: https://reviewable.io/

Subject: Re: [geometry] [boost] More cool free github tooling: https://reviewable.io/
From: Menelaos Karavelas (menelaos.karavelas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-22 01:08:26

Hi all.

On 21/05/2015 06:11 μμ, Niall Douglas wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm not sure about other libraries, but in Boost.Thread Vicente the
> primary maintainer does the lion's share of dealing with pull
> requests but he occasionally needs someone else to review a patchset
> or a pull request before it can be merged. Github's facilities for
> this are okay - you can comment per line of a pull request, and
> overall. It works, though one wishes for something more gerrit like.
>
> So enter a new free tool with github integration:
> https://reviewable.io/. One click install into your github project.
> You now gain an alternative UI for pull requests, one which is much
> better than the default Github UI, specifically:
>
> * Per file review gating like gerrit
> * Can publish a group of per-line comments as a single thing (and
> just one email notification)
> * Doesn't hide deleted change history
> * Diffs are much better calculated and presented
>
> I've turned it on for AFIO. We'll see how it goes.

I have not tried it yet, but it may be worth giving it a try for 
reviewing our PRs.

Best,

- m.

> Niall
>
>
>
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