Zhe,

The canonical repository for Lucene is SVN, not Git. I'm not sure that
Gerrit would be of much use to us, unless I am misunderstanding the
integration points.

Mike

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Zhe Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Lucene 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 request (besides Jenkins
> support) is the rebase workflow (rather than git merge), which avoids merge
> commits.
>
> 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 Lucene community would be interested in moving on this
> direction as well. Any feedback is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Zhe Zhang
>

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