+1

Rajith

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Alan Conway <acon...@redhat.com> wrote:

> +1
>
>
> On 02/14/2011 11:53 AM, Robbie Gemmell wrote:
>
>> For those who didn't follow the recent discussion, I recently raised
>> the issue of our poor use of JIRA and inclusion of JIRA references
>> within svn commit log messages. A quick check of the prior 3 months
>> commits showed barely over 30% of them had a JIRA reference, which is
>> far lower than it should have been.
>>
>> During the discussion I suggested we add a pre-commit hook to enforce
>> use of JIRA references where appropriate. One suggestion I made was
>> that this would block all commits that don't have a Qpid JIRA
>> reference unless they instead contained eg 'NO-JIRA', which could be
>> used to bypass the hook on demand. Any commit which failed to meet
>> these cases would be rejected with a message alerting the committer
>> how to resolve the issue, i.e. include a JIRA reference if appropriate
>> or signal their intent to bypass the requirement. This means noone
>> would ever be prevented from committing what they want when they want,
>> but still removes the possibility of JIRA references being left out
>> due to merely forgetting them, and means that if/when we later review
>> the commits we can identify where people have chosen to purposely
>> bypass the requirement.
>>
>> I haven't seen any objections to such a system, but to ensure everyone
>> gets a say I wanted to call this vote to establish the way forward. As
>> per indication at http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html the
>> vote will be conducted on a majority rules basis, and I propose that
>> the vote is open equally to all committers and not just PMC members.
>> The vote will close at 5pm GMT on Thursday 17th February (i.e. approx
>> 72hrs from now).
>>
>> Please reply with your +1 / -1 vote, or cross one of the boxes below:
>>
>> [  ] +1,  I accept the proposal and vote to add the svn pre-commit
>> hook as outlined above.
>> [  ] -1,  I reject the proposal and vote not to add the svn pre-commit
>> hook outlined above.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Robbie
>>
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Regards,

Rajith Attapattu
Red Hat
http://rajith.2rlabs.com/

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