Code review in Github feels like a bad afterthought - the space-wasting interface that looks more like a forum thread, the inability to track over rebases, etc.
Code review in Github feels like a bad afterthought - the space-wasting interface that looks more like a forum thread, the inability to track over rebases, etc.
I do think this is a weakness of Gerrit. It doesn't really capture "big picture" stuff nearly so well. At least on GH you can read the top-level comment, which is independent of the commits inside it. Most of the time I was deep in Gerrit doing review or writing patches, it was because the architectural decisions had already been made elsewhere.
I guess it's one of the tradeoffs to Gerrit only being a code review tool. Phabricator also didn't suffer from this so much because you could just create a ticket to discuss things in the exact same space. Gerrit is amazingly extensible though so plugging this in is definitely possible, at least.