| # Gertty, console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system |
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| Gertty is a console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system. |
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| As compared to the web interface, the main advantages are: |
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| * Workflow -- the interface is designed to support a workflow similar |
| to reading network news or mail. In particular, it is designed to |
| deal with a large number of review requests across a large number of |
| projects. |
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| * Offline Use -- Gertty syncs information about changes in subscribed |
| projects to a local database and local git repos. All review |
| operations are performed against that database and then synced back |
| to Gerrit. |
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| * Speed -- user actions modify locally cached content and need not |
| wait for server interaction. |
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| * Convenience -- because Gertty downloads all changes to local git |
| repos, a single command instructs it to checkout a change into that |
| repo for detailed examination or testing of larger changes. |
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| This presentation will provide an overview and demonstration of |
| Gertty, as well as some discussion about Gerrit's excellent REST API. |
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| *[James E. Blair, Red Hat](../speakers.md#corvus)* |
