On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, at 12:42, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> 
> On 04/23/2018 06:05 PM, Stephen Houston wrote:
> > In our meeting today we discussed the need for more patch/commit reviewing
> > and that there should be rules in place as to what should require a review
> > before being pushed into master. 
> 
> I was one of the persons who pushed for the all-patches-has-to-go-
> through-review.
> The majority at the meeting found this either not needed, to time 
> consuming or hard to realise on subsystems where only one developer is 
> active.
> 
> None the less I am happy that there is at least movement in getting more 
> changes peer reviewed before they hit master.
> 
> 
> 
> >  These were some suggestions:
> > Any commit that:
> > A. Is not a fix or a feature planned for the next release
> 
> This bounds us to a very fixed release plan. Can we always say if a 
> patch belongs to a specific feature? Often enough things can get argued
> both ways.
> As a rule its a bit to fuzzy in my opinion.
> 
> > B. Is greater than 50 lines
> 
> We had enough one line commits that broke things. 50 sounds a bit 
> arbitrary to me.
> 
> > C. Is in an area of the code base that has more than one developer
> > contributing
> 
> Indeed, the areas where really only one developer is active are hard to 
> get review for.
> My suggestion here is to at least try to get review for the concept if 
> you are doing a bigger change.
> 
> My proposals for the review rules would be something like this:
> 1. We encourage commits to be peer reviewed even if you  have commit 
> access to the repo. If you are unsure, better ask for a review.
> 2. If you change code in an area you are not familiar with you must get 
> the code reviewed from one of the developer of this subsystem.
> 3. If your change is not part of the initial plan for the upcoming 
> release it needs to get reviewed as well.
> 4. If to many of your direct commits have been introducing breaks 
> recently we might ask you to get all patches reviewed for a while.
> 

I think these four rules are actually pretty reasonable and could be 
implemented.

> 
> For number 2 we would need to have a list if subsystems and their 
> developer (first reviewers) and of course fallback all areas not covered
> there.
> Number 3 would only be relevant if we would do detailed release planning 
> (which does very much clash with any time based releases)
> 
> > Other suggestions were to require branch pushing for CI certification
> > before pushing to master.
> 
> This could be done. TravisCI is building all branches with new commits 
> in the efl repo.
> 
> A developer workflow for this would be:
> Do your work in a branch -> push this branch to your devs/ namespace to 
> the server -> Check result on Travis build -> if all is fine push
> for review or merge into master

This is what I suggested in the IRC meeting yesterday, and I think that could 
also work.

> 
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
> 
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