Is ReviewBoard a good thing?

[Jesse Meek]

We moved to GitHub in the hope of lowering the bar to contributors 
outside the team. GitHub is *the* platform and process for open source 
software. This was the logic behind the move. It was deemed to have the 
most mindshare and we sacrificed our prefered platform and process to be 
part of that mindshare.

We are now leaving that 'main stream' process to something that suits 
the tastes of our team - ReviewBoard. This adds friction for new 
contributors (friction everyone has experienced this week). If we value 
our preferred methods of reviewing over keeping to a well known process 
for outside contributors, the best process was launchpad + rietveld. 
Shouldn't we simply return to that.

Considering we have been successfully using GitHub for several months 
now, using reviewboard is not a necessity. Obviously, I will go with 
whatever the team decides, but I'm concerned that we have moved to 
reviewboard without considering that it undermines (as far as I can see) 
our primary reason for using GitHub.

Jess