[Gluster-Maintainers] Changing Submit Type on review.gluster.org

[Niels de Vos]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 04:11:22PM +0530, Milind Changire wrote:
> *Squashed Patches*
> I believe, individual engineers have to own the responsibility of
> maintaining history of all appropriate Change-Ids as part of the commit
> message when multiple patches have been squashed/merged into one commit.

We do not recommend squashing multiple patches into one at any case. It
is much easier to follow the modifications when each functional change
has its own patch. This counts for the master branch, but also for
backports.

Niels


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> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Nigel Babu <nigelb at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > Hello folks,
> >
> > A few times, we've merged dependent patches out of order because the Submit
> > type[1] did not block us from doing so. The last few times we've talked
> > about
> > this, we didn't actually take a strong decision either way. In yesterday's
> > maintainers meeting, we agreed to change the Submit type to
> > Rebase-If-Necessary. This change will happen on 18th September 2017.
> >
> > What this means:
> > * No more metadata flags added by Gerrit. There will only be a Change-Id,
> >   Signed-off-by, and BUG (if you've added it). Gerrit itself will not add
> > any
> >   metadata.
> > * If you push a patch on top of another patch, the Submit button will
> > either be
> >   grayed out because the dependent patches cannot be merged or they will be
> >   submited in the correct order in one go.
> >
> > Some of the concerns that have been raised:
> > Q: With the Reviewed-on flag gone, how do we keep track of changesets
> >    (especially backports)?
> > A: The Change-Id will get you all the data directly on Gerrit. As long you
> >    retain the Change-Id, Gerrit will get you the matching changesets.
> >
> > Q: Will who-wrote-what continue to work?
> > A: As far as I can see, it continues to work. I ran the script against
> >    build-jobs repo and it works correctly. Additionally, we'll be setting
> > up an
> >    instance of Gerrit Stats[2] to provide more detailed stats.
> >
> > Q: Can we have some of the metadata if not all?
> > Q: Why can't we have the metadata if we change the submit type?
> > A: There's no good answer to this other than, this is how Gerrit works and
> >    I can neither change it nor control it.
> >
> > [1]: https://review.gluster.org/Documentation/intro-project-
> > owner.html#submit-type
> > [2]: http://gerritstats-demo.firebaseapp.com/
> >
> > --
> > nigelb
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> Milind

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