On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:44 PM, John Burwell <john.burw...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I think we should stick to 2 votes per PR.  Defining types of PRs becomes 
> difficult bordering on the arbitrary — adding a process complexity and the 
> potential to start debating if a particular PR is one type or another.

agree

>
> I agree regarding the fast forward, and feel that all PRs should squashed 
> down to one commit.  Ultimately, intermediate commits that seem informative 
> in a feature branch become noise in a history as large as CloudStack’s.

bad practice in my not so humble opinion.

>
> To enforce the policy and ensure that PRs are merged in an orderly and 
> correct manner (i.e. one at time), I think we should consider adopting a tool 
> such as bors [1] to verify that the merge passes all tests and then performs 
> the merge. It would some minor modification to require two votes, but I doubt 
> that would take much effort to implement.  If there is interest, I would 
> happy to make those changes for the project.

Tooling is great but let us first find a practice to agree on and then
fit tooling on it.

>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
> [1]: https://github.com/graydon/bors
>
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>
>
>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On 25-Jun-2015, at 4:38 pm, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A few of us are in Amsterdam at DevOps days. We are chatting about release 
>>> management procedure.
>>> Remi is working on a set of principles that he will put on the wiki to 
>>> start a [DISCUSS].
>>>
>>> However to get started on the right track. I would like to propose the 
>>> following easy step:
>>>
>>> Starting Monday June 29th (next monday):
>>>
>>> - Only commit through PR will land on master (after a minimum of 2 LGTM and 
>>> green Travis results)
>>> - Direct commit will be reverted
>>> - Any committer can merge the PR.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I’ve been trying to help close PRs, it was difficult at first but then I 
>> found some tooling to help me do that. I think it’s certainly do-able 
>> without investing a lot of effort to do it, perhaps can done everyday or 
>> every few days in a week.
>>
>> Some suggestions and comments to improve PR reviewing/merging:
>>
>> - Let's merge the PR commits in a fast forward way instead of doing a branch 
>> merge that introduces frivolous merge commits. This is one approach to do 
>> quickly and painlessly:
>>
>> http://blog.remibergsma.com/2015/05/24/accepting-pull-requests-the-easy-way/
>>
>> - Let’s try to send PR around on one issue or one broad issue, or against a 
>> JIRA ticket; but avoid unrelated sub-systems etc
>>
>> - If there are not many changes (say less than 100-200 lines were changed), 
>> let's have the changes melded into one commit. This can be done either by 
>> the PR author or by the committer. The immediate benefit is that all the 
>> changes will be much easy to port across other branches, easy to view and 
>> follow git-log, and easy to revert-able.
>>
>> - Certain PRs that are typographical fixes, doc fixes and tooling related 
>> fixes - so let’s review and merge them if we’ve at least one green review 
>> (“LGTM”), though changes to CloudStack mgmt server, agent and plugins 
>> codebase IMO should have at least 2 green reviews (“LGTM”).
>>
>>> Goal being to start having a new practice -everything through PR for 
>>> everyone- which is an easy way to gate our own commits building up to a PR.
>>>
>>> There is no tooling involved, just human agreement.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rohit Yadav
>> Software Architect, ShapeBlue
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>>
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