On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Amar Tumballi <atumb...@redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Amar Tumballi <atumb...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Amar Tumballi <atumb...@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Below is an update about the project’s move towards using
>>> clang-formatter for imposing few coding-standards.
>>>
>>> Gluster project, since inception followed certain basic coding standard,
>>> which was (at that time) easy to follow, and easy to review.
>>>
>>> Over the time, with inclusion of many more developers and working with
>>> other communities, as the coding standards are different across projects,
>>> we got different type of code into source. After 11+years, now is the time
>>> we should be depending on tool for it more than ever, and hence we have
>>> decided to depend on clang-formatter for this.
>>>
>>> Below are some highlights of this activity. We expect each of you to
>>> actively help us in this move, so it is smooth for all of us.
>>>
>>>    - We kickstarted this activity sometime around April 2018
>>>    <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564149>
>>>    - There was a repo created for trying out the options, and
>>>    validating the code. Link to Repo
>>>    <https://github.com/nigelbabu/clang-format-sample>
>>>    - Now, with the latest .clang-format file, we have made the whole
>>>    GlusterFS codebase changes. The change here
>>>    <https://github.com/nigelbabu/glusterfs>
>>>    - We will be running regression with the changes, multiple times, so
>>>    we don’t want to miss something getting in without our notice.
>>>    - As it is a very big change (Almost 6 lakh lines changed), we will
>>>    not put this commit through gerrit, but directly pushing to the repo.
>>>    - Once this patch gets in (ETA: 28th August), all the pending
>>>    patches needs to go through rebase.
>>>
>>>
>> All, as Shyam has proposed to change the branch out date for release-5.0
>> as Sept 10th [1], we are now targeting Sept 7th for this activity.
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> We are finally Done!
>
> We delayed in by another 4 days to make sure we pass the regression
> properly with clang changes, and it doesn't break anything.
>
> Also note, from now, it is always better to format the changes with below
> command before committing.
>
>  sh$ cd glusterfs-git-repo/
>  sh$ clang-format -i $(list_of_files_changed)
>  sh$ git commit # and usual steps to publish your changes.
>
> Also note, all the changes which were present earlier, needs to be rebased
> with clang-format too.
>
> One of the quick and dirty way to get your changes rebased in the case if
> your patch is significantly large, is by applying the patches on top of the
> commit before the clang-changes, and copy the files over, and run
> clang-format -i on them, and checking the diff. As no code other coding
> style changes happened, this should work fine.
>
> Please post if you have any concerns.
>
>
Noticed some glitches! Stand with us till we handle the situation...

meantime, found that below command for git am works better for applying
smaller patches:

 $ git am --ignore-whitespace --ignore-space-change --reject 0001-patch

-Amar


> Regards,
> Amar
>
>
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>> [1] - https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-Augus
>> t/055308.html
>>
>>
>>> What are the next steps:
>>>
>>>    - The patch <https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/20892> of
>>>    adding .clang-format file will get in first
>>>    - Nigel/Infra team will be keeping the repo
>>>    <https://github.com/nigelbabu/glusterfs> with all files changed open
>>>    for review till EOD 27th August, 2018
>>>
>>> This changes to 05th Sept, 2018
>>
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>>>
>>>    - Upon passing regression, we will push this one change to main
>>>    branch.
>>>    - After that, we will have a smoke job to validate the coding
>>>    standard as per the .clang-format file, which will vote -1 if it is
>>>    not meeting the standard.
>>>    - There will be guidelines about how to setup your own .clang-format
>>>    setup, so while sending the patch, it gets posted in proper format
>>>       - This will be provided for both ./rfc.sh and git review users.
>>>    - Having clang-formatter installed would be still optional, but
>>>    there would be high chance the smoke would fail if not formatted right.
>>>
>>> Any future changes to coding standard, due to improvements in
>>> clang-format tool itself, or due to developers believing some other option
>>> is better suited, can be getting in through gerrit.
>>>
>>> Also note that, we will not be applying the changes to contrib/ directory,
>>> as that is expected to be same as corresponding upstream coding standard of
>>> particular project. We believe that helps to make sure we can quickly check
>>> the diff with corresponding changes really easily.
>>>
>>> Happy to hear any feedback!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Amar (on behalf of many Gluster Maintainers)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>>
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>
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>



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