Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-25 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 10:49 -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: Gerrit support for a patch series could certainly be better. There has long been talking about gerrit getting topic review functionality, whereby you could e.g. approve a whole series of patches from a topic view. See:

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread Julien Danjou
On Mon, Mar 24 2014, John Dennis wrote: But from that point forward it appears as if each commit is handled independently rather than being an ordered list of commits that are grouped together sharing a single review where their relationship is explicit. Also the jenkins tests either needs to

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread Russell Bryant
On 03/24/2014 10:31 AM, John Dennis wrote: When a change is complex good practice is to break the change into a series of smaller individual patches that show the individual incremental steps needed to get to the final goal. When partitioned into small steps each change is easier to review and

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread John Griffith
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, John Dennis jden...@redhat.com wrote: When a change is complex good practice is to break the change into a series of smaller individual patches that show the individual incremental steps needed to get to the final goal. When partitioned into small steps each

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread Russell Bryant
On 03/24/2014 11:08 AM, John Griffith wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, John Dennis jden...@redhat.com mailto:jden...@redhat.com wrote: When a change is complex good practice is to break the change into a series of smaller individual patches that show the individual

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread Ben Nemec
On 2014-03-24 09:31, John Dennis wrote: When a change is complex good practice is to break the change into a series of smaller individual patches that show the individual incremental steps needed to get to the final goal. When partitioned into small steps each change is easier to review and

Re: [openstack-dev] Multiple patches in one review

2014-03-24 Thread Carl Baldwin
+1 to all Ben said. There are reasons to split things up in to a logical progression of changes but each change must stand alone and must pass tests. Carl On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Ben Nemec openst...@nemebean.com wrote: I should point out that Jenkins can't apply the next patch in