Have not used it .. But the listed features sound good.

On 11/6/15 10:56 AM, "Jarek Jarcec Cecho" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I like the gerrit flow a lot. I can¹t speak for the flume community, but
>I would be in favor of that :)
>
>You might consider sending similar email to Sqoop community where I would
>support gerrit as well.
>
>Jarcec
>
>> On Nov 6, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Zhe Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Flume contributors,
>> 
>> The Hadoop community is considering adding Gerrit as a review / commit
>> tool. Since this will require support from the Apache Infra team, it
>>makes
>> more sense if multiple projects can benefit from the effort.
>> 
>> The main benefit of Gerrit over ReviewBoard is better integration with
>>git
>> and Jenkins. A Gerrit review request is created through a simple "git
>>push"
>> instead of manually creating and uploading a diff file. Conflicts
>>detection
>> and rebase can be done on the review UI as well. When the programmed
>>commit
>> criteria are met (e.g. a code review +1 and a Jenkins verification),
>> committing can also be done with a single button click, or even
>> automatically.
>> 
>> The main benefit of Gerrit over Github pull requests is the rebase
>>workflow
>> (rather than git merge), which avoids merge commits. The rebase workflow
>> also enables a clear interdiff view, rather than reviewing every patch
>>rev
>> from scratch.
>> 
>> This also just augments instead of replacing the current review / commit
>> flow. Every task will still start as a JIRA. Review comments can be
>>made on
>> both JIRA and Gerrit and will be bi-directionally mirrored. Patches can
>> also be directly committed through git command line (Gerrit will
>>recognize
>> a direct commit and close the review request as long as a simple git
>>hook
>> is installed:
>> https://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-changeid.html).
>> 
>> I wonder if the Flume community would be interested in moving on this
>> direction as well. Any feedback is much appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Zhe Zhang
>
>

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