The vote is now closed. There were 14  +1 votes and no other votes,
meaning the proposal was passed.

I will approach Infra in the days ahead about implementing the commit hook.

Robbie

On 14 February 2011 16:53, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>

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