[Gluster-devel] Gerrit submit type (was tests/bugs/gfapi/bug-1447266/bug-1447266.t)

[Jeff Darcy]

On Tue, May 16, 2017, at 07:06 AM, Raghavendra Talur wrote:
> > Submit
> > type only comes into play after the decision has already been made to
> > enable/allow submission.
> 
> Not true. I have looked into this last year when I sent out the
> mail[1] asking fast-forward to be the submit type. I am now aware that
> fast-forward is wrong method to use. With cherry pick method gerrit
> does not use the information which it uses to show related changes to
> *enforce* submit order.

What I meant to say was that submit type *should* only come into play
after the decision has been made to enable/allow submission.  I keep
forgetting that the Gerrit developers's attitude toward users is one of
active hostility.  As I said, the tools are there.  The fact that
there's not even an option to use information *already at hand* to help
prevent dependency violations (non-dependent patches would be
unaffected) strikes me as borderline insane.