Hi Zhe, This is promising! One question: is it possible to enfore fast-forward only commits when pushing upstream via the web UI? A history full of merge commits is not very palatable from our community perspective.
Thanks, Nick On Thursday, November 5, 2015, Zhe Zhang <z...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi HBase contributors, > > The Hadoop community is considering adding Gerrit as a review / commit > tool. Since this will require support from the Apache Infra team, it makes > more sense if multiple projects can benefit from the effort. > > The main benefit of Gerrit over ReviewBoard is better integration with git > and Jenkins. A Gerrit review request is created through a simple "git push" > instead of manually creating and uploading a diff file. Conflicts detection > and rebase can be done on the review UI as well. When the programmed commit > criteria are met (e.g. a code review +1 and a Jenkins verification), > committing can also be done with a single button click, or even > automatically. > > This also just augments instead of replacing the current review / commit > flow. Every task will still start as a JIRA. Review comments can be made on > both JIRA and Gerrit and will be bi-directionally mirrored. Patches can > also be directly committed through git command line (Gerrit will recognize > a direct commit and close the review request as long as a simple git hook > is installed: > https://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-changeid.html). > > I wonder if the HBase community would be interested in moving on this > direction as well. Any feedback is much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Zhe Zhang >
