+1 -Steve
> -----Original Message----- > From: Robbie Gemmell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 11:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VOTE] add a pre-commit hook to check for JIRA references > > > For those who didn't follow the recent discussion, I recently > raised the issue of our poor use of JIRA and inclusion of > JIRA references within svn commit log messages. A quick check > of the prior 3 months commits showed barely over 30% of them > had a JIRA reference, which is far lower than it should have been. > > During the discussion I suggested we add a pre-commit hook to > enforce use of JIRA references where appropriate. One > suggestion I made was that this would block all commits that > don't have a Qpid JIRA reference unless they instead > contained eg 'NO-JIRA', which could be used to bypass the > hook on demand. Any commit which failed to meet these cases > would be rejected with a message alerting the committer how > to resolve the issue, i.e. include a JIRA reference if > appropriate or signal their intent to bypass the requirement. > This means noone would ever be prevented from committing what > they want when they want, but still removes the possibility > of JIRA references being left out due to merely forgetting > them, and means that if/when we later review the commits we > can identify where people have chosen to purposely bypass the > requirement. > > I haven't seen any objections to such a system, but to ensure > everyone gets a say I wanted to call this vote to establish > the way forward. As per indication at > http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html the vote will be > conducted on a majority rules basis, and I propose that the > vote is open equally to all committers and not just PMC > members. The vote will close at 5pm GMT on Thursday 17th > February (i.e. approx 72hrs from now). > > Please reply with your +1 / -1 vote, or cross one of the boxes below: > > [ ] +1, I accept the proposal and vote to add the svn > pre-commit hook as outlined above. [ ] -1, I reject the > proposal and vote not to add the svn pre-commit hook outlined above. > > > Regards, > Robbie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
