The Gerrit code review iceberg | Haiku Project

Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 358 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldes tone has not seen any comments since 2018.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2025-11-24-the_gerrit_pending_review_iceberg
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I don’t have the knowledge on these topics however the post is interesting to have the current status on these subjects.

Thanks!

Personally I don’t think that is is a problem at all. It is a matter of priorities and developer interest for individual patches.

The only thing that it is better to merge patches when possible instead of keeping it in pending status forever, maybe disabling it in default build if not ready. It is easier to maintain merged code.

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There are the places where an AI mcp like amp, gemini-cli or the others can help to classifies it