Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-30 Thread Gwen Shapira
I wasn't aware of this history, thanks for explaining! In most Apache projects I contributed to, the list of things that are stated in reviewed by are implied in a committer committing the patch. Reviewers are there to help the committer make the decision (thats why I sometimes mention @ewencp

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-30 Thread Ismael Juma
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Gwen Shapira gshap...@cloudera.com wrote: I wasn't aware of this history, thanks for explaining! No problem. :) In most Apache projects I contributed to, the list of things that are stated in reviewed by are implied in a committer committing the patch.

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi Gwen, Thanks for the feedback. Comments below. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Gwen Shapira gshap...@cloudera.com wrote: The jira comment is a way for the committer to say thank you to people who were involved in the review process. If we just want to say thank you, then why not just

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi Parth, On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Parth Brahmbhatt pbrahmbh...@hortonworks.com wrote: +1 on Gwen¹s suggestion. Consider this as my thank you for all the reviews everyone has done in past and are going to do in future. Don¹t make me say thanks on every single commit. Introducing

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Gwen Shapira
I guess we see the reviewer part with different interpretations. What are the benefits you see of formalizing who gets mentioned as reviewer? On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ismael Juma ism...@juma.me.uk wrote: Hi Gwen, Thanks for the feedback. Comments below. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:40

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Parth Brahmbhatt
+1 on Gwen¹s suggestion. Consider this as my thank you for all the reviews everyone has done in past and are going to do in future. Don¹t make me say thanks on every single commit. Introducing another process when the project has 50 PR open pretty much all the time is not really going to help.

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Gwen Shapira
My two cents: The jira comment is a way for the committer to say thank you to people who were involved in the review process. It doesn't have any formal implications - the responsibility for committing good code is on the committer (thats the whole point). It doesn't even have informal

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Gwen Shapira gshap...@cloudera.com wrote: I guess we see the reviewer part with different interpretations. Yes. As you know, Git was created for and initially used by the Linux Kernel. As such they were very influential in conventions, terminology and best

[DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi all, As a general rule, we credit reviewers in the commit message. This is good. However, it is not clear to me if there are guidelines on who should be included as a reviewer (please correct me if I am wrong). I can think of a few options: 1. Anyone that commented on the patch (in the