On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 06:46:57PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> So Rodrigo just broke the gitlab ci on libdrm, I figured perfect time
> to start this discussion.
> 
> There's imo 2 reasons to do this:
> 
> - No more "oops, I broke make check". If we use gitlab merge requests
>   gitlab CI will test everything, and we can set 2 checkboxes that
>   disallow direct pushes (i.e. require merge requests), and that all
>   merge requests must pass CI first.
> 
> - maintainer-tools is a small project with a small team and little
>   activity. Much easier to figure out the details here than in one of
>   our big projects. And there's lots to figure out, which we need to
>   be able to explain (and have documented) for our 50+ team, if we
>   ever want to use gitlab: commandline tools, emacs modes, best
>   practices for setup, ...
> 
> To avoid this being an entirely hypothetical discussion, I've gone
> ahead and created a merge request for this:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools/merge_requests/3
> 
> For keeping up with activity: Go to the main repo, click the alarm
> icon (which probably says "Global" now), and change the setting to
> "Watch". That should keep you updated on all issues and merge
> requests, like with a mailing list.
> 
> v2: Add link to merge request.
> 
> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
> index c7846e318b7e..636d94e3c0af 100644
> --- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
> @@ -1,11 +1,21 @@
>  CONTRIBUTING
>  ============
>  
> -Submit patches, bug reports, and questions for any of the maintainer tools 
> and
> -documentation to the [email protected] mailing list.
> +Patches should be sent via `GitLab merge requests
> +<https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/gitlab-basics/add-merge-request.html>`_.

That seems awfully cumbersome to click through some web doodad for every
little thing. Is there a decent command line workflow for this?

> +maintainer-tools are hosted on `freedesktop.org's GitLab
> +<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools>`_: in order to submit
> +code, you should create an account on this GitLab instance, fork the core 
> Weston
> +repository, push your changes to a branch in your new repository, and then
> +submit these patches for review through a merge request.
>  
> -Please make sure your patches pass the build and self tests by running::
> +Gitlab CI will automatically run all tests. You can test your patches 
> locally by
> +running::
>  
>    $ make check
>  
> -Push the patches once you have an ack from maintainers (Jani/Daniel).
> +All merge requests need an ack from at least one of the committers before it 
> can
> +be pushed. Don't push to master directly.
> +
> +Bug reports, suggestions for improvements and questions for any of the
> +maintainer tools and documentation should be filed as new issues.
> -- 
> 2.19.0.rc2
> 
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Ville Syrjälä
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