Code review tools (was: "Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD")

On Fri, Jan 2, 2026, at 9:50 AM, Minsoo Choo wrote:
> This leaves us Github/Gitlab/forgejo. Github is privately owned and 
> their UX gets worse every year. One of the reasons zig migrated from 
> github to forgejo was github action blocked CI runs for months due to 
> their bug in sleep script. GitLab has too many features and their web 
> interface is very slow. This leaves us forgejo, and I love it except 
> for their css styles.

I am certainly looking forward to a system that encourages more effective interaction between contributors and committers. I do wonder how much of it is technical vs social though.

I don’t know what the criteria are for evaluating a new tool, but I’ve been using Gerrit for a few months and think it’s fantastic for code review and follows the patch model really well. I haven’t ported it (yet) but install and setup was easy, and it’s very configurable for the kind of access control that might be desirable for the project.

Pat