I didn't realize you could review your own PR. That gives us the "escape hatch" that we need.
-Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick North" <nort...@gmail.com> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org, "Joan Touzet" <woh...@apache.org> Sent: Friday, 18 August, 2017 9:48:40 AM Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Disallow all merges of PRs to master that cause tests to fail This is pretty much the set of restrictions we have on the master branch in my organisation, and it works well. We also require PR reviews before merging, but anyone in the team can do the review, including the PR author. This means the author has to make a conscious decision on whether the changes are trivial enough to sign off themselves, or whether someone else should review them, and there's an audit trail of that decision being made. Nick On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 at 23:49 Joan Touzet < woh...@apache.org > wrote: Seems there is general consensus. Now, how do people feel about me asking Infra to make this change to the main repos (couchdb, couchdb-fauxton, etc.): https://help.github.com/assets/images/help/repository/protecting-branch-loose-status.png Specifically: Protect master branch (and any release branches like 2.1.x) Require status checks to pass before merging Require branches be up to date before merging We can have an optional secondary discussion around enforcing: Require pull request reviews before merging This would enforce our RTC model, but we *need* more active devs if this is going to pass. I've had to beg multiple times for many of my PRs in the 2.1.0 release cycle to be approved...even trivial documentation changes. It was very frustrating. -Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Vatamaniuc" < vatam...@gmail.com > To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 16 August, 2017 6:01:34 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Disallow all merges of PRs to master that cause tests to fail +1 On Aug 16, 2017 15:50, "Alexander Shorin" < kxe...@gmail.com > wrote: > It's strange to say something else than +1 or question the topic in any > way. > > Good call, Joan! > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Joan Touzet < woh...@apache.org > wrote: > > Hi committers, > > > > I'd like to propose a change to our policy on version control, namely > > that no check-ins be allowed on the master branch unless CI test runs > > against that PR are clean. > > > > We've worked hard as a group to get runs clean. We need to protect > > that achievement and investment in our test suite. That means not > > letting rogue check-ins slip by because we are ignoring a red X in > > GitHub (GH) from the Travis run. > > > > Things I see as exceptions: > > * Changes to things clearly not related to the test suite, i.e. > > documentation, support scripts, rel/overlay/etc/ files, etc. > > * Changes already agreed upon in a previous PR/discussion for > > administrative tasks > > > > Interesting situation right now for a discussion: Garren has a PR up[1] > > that enables the mango tests to be part of the standard Travis/Jenkins > > runs. Unfortunately, it doesn't pass on one of our platforms right now > > and that needs investigation. Should we allow the PR to land and fix > > the problems in master, or should the PR hold-up until it can land along > > with the fixes for the failing mango tests? I can see both sides of this > > argument. > > > > It may or may not be possible for our GH setup to actually prevent such > > checkins (the Apache GH setup is somewhat restricted, and various things > > like commit hooks and webhooks have to be configured by INFRA, not us). > > > > I'd like to further discuss whether people feel such a hook would be > > acceptable, onerous or otherwise. Personally, I worry that such a setup > > might prevent us from checking in some of the exceptions above, but if > > there is a way around it, we could proceed down that path. > > > > What do you think, sirs?[2] > > Joan > > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/753 > > [2]: It's a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Joel reference. :) >
