[ANN] Please use Gerrit from now on for Patch Review

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:09:34PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> The wiki page says you have to create a ssh key; I hope it is not
> necessary, and one can reuse his fd.o key?  If yes - can we automate
> that in any way, to save the admins work?

Thats a bit tricky - we can try to get the fd.o guys to throw the public keys
over the fence, but to map them to the gerrit accounts, you would have to:
- create the account (login with OpenID once)
- add your email address in the preferences
at which point you are almost there anyway. Also I dont know if fd.o has a
key-to-git-email-mapping at all.

> And - in the ideal case when everything is working as expected, will
> there be need for fd.o accounts, or the later people with direct push
> access will be OK with just the gerrit ssh key?

Just the gerrit key. In the ideal case, there wont be a need for fd.o accounts
anymore -- it will be a read-only mirror in the end. This also has the
advantage that we take complete control over commit access ourselves --
hoppefully speeding up the time to give someone commit acccess(*).

Best,

Bjoern

(*) Well, with gerrit everybody has reviewed commit access. But we would even
control on our own, who we give access to commit to master without/bypassing
review (which will be those who have commit access on fdo now in the
beginning).