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Alex Newman commented on HBASE-4593:
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Maybe this is the wrong time to suggest it. But i feel like we have a ton of
nits in HBase. Perhaps now we could enshrine a policy to avoid this. Like
whenever you touch a file, you post a separate patch where you handle weird
formatting nits, spelling errors, etc. That way no one has to really review it
carefully (as it is just autodetected nits), and the two patches can go in
together.
> Design and document the official procedure for posting patches, commits,
> commit messages, etc. to smooth process and make integration with tools easier
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> Key: HBASE-4593
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4593
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Jonathan Gray
> Assignee: Misty Stanley-Jones
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> I have been building a tool (currently called reposync) to help me keep the
> internal FB hbase-92-based branch up-to-date with the public branches.
> Various inconsistencies in our process has made it difficult to automate a
> lot of this stuff.
> I'd like to work with everyone to come up with the official best practices
> and stick to it.
> I welcome all suggestions. Among some of the things I'd like to nail down:
> - Commit message format
> - Best practice and commit message format for multiple commits
> - Multiple commits per jira vs. jira per commit, what are the exceptions and
> when
> - Affects vs. Fix versions
> - Potential usage of [tags] in commit messages for things like book, scripts,
> shell... maybe even whatever is in the components field?
> - Increased usage of JIRA tags or labels to mark exactly which repos a JIRA
> has been committed to (potentially even internal repos? ways for a tool to
> keep track in JIRA?)
> We also need to be more strict about some things if we want to follow Apache
> guidelines. For example, all final versions of a patch must be attached to
> JIRA so that the author properly assigns it to Apache.
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