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

[Pierre-André Jacquod]

Hello,
well as free time contributor with commit access to current repository, 
I followed this gerrit story. So not kind of surprise, but yeah, until 
THIS mail and posts, was me very unclear what it would mean.

To say it, first I had a lot of doubt. Reading mails, entry in the wiki, 
looking the web ans thinking, I now have the feeling this could be a 
good move.

Just to say, I basically just really do not like the fact of having to 
use openId, would prefer to have an account at fd.o. I did it really for 
the LibO, a kind of forced to. And NO, I do NOT have any google, flickr, 
facebook or other account. Do not trust them enough to put my data 
there, so to use them as authentication.... But no choice (!) I kind of 
understood. [+1 for / to Lionel thread]

I - sorry - do not want to read a lot gerrit documentation, I am here 
already in my free time. So I raise some questions that are not clear 
for me, that I did not saw in the wiki, based on my previous 
experiences. Here some points:

[WORKFLOW]
1. I have been beaten back by tinderbox (Mac OS X hurt me well), fixing 
some stupid point of my commits run after run. So would this workflow be 
supported :
some patch done
I push to gerrit and let tinderbox run. In case of success I get ? a +1 
of each tinderbox ? How do I know it passes with success.
Once tinderbox is successful, since my change is small or I am confident 
with, I put a +2 to my patch, which means this will insert automatically 
it to master. So I will be able to positive review my own patch ?

2. If I have several patches, that need to be together, how should I 
proceed with pushing them together to gerrit ? (If I want to have three 
patches in the same review ID from gerrit) ?

[ADMIN]
1. I followed the asked process of setting up an account, etc.. mailed 
to Norbert so he can match my fd.o account to gerrit. Well, how may I 
now see that I actually have / will have commit access to gerrit repo ?

2. When my ssh key expires, it is enough to just change it into my 
gerrit account ?

3. May be a stupid remark, but why do not use this way (opening gerrit 
account ) then to ask for license stuff ? You would have to ack to be 
able to open account, or to load patches. This would ease, ensure the 
process towards this goal ?

Thanks & Regards
Pierre-André

On 06/18/2012 12:09 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> with:
>
>   http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/13298.html
>
> gerrit is documented and ready to go. Please use it for code review as much as
> possible now as it simplifies things a lot over manual patch fiddling on
> mailing lists. I will update the EasyHacks to point to gerrit instead in the
> next days.
> The last remaining step will be making the repo at gerrit the reference (and
> the one at freedesktop a read-only mirror). I assume that to be prepared and
> done until mid-July(*).
>>From that point on, we will have a lot of opportunity to improve our tinderbox
> testing and reporting, making life easier and better for everyone working on
> the codebase.
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
>
> (*) Along with the "other" repos.
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