On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Eric Snow <eric.s...@canonical.com> wrote:

> With the switch to Reviewboard we introduced extra steps to our
> workflow (mostly involving rbt).  This in turn made things more
> difficult for new/existing contributors.  I've been able to take some
> time in the last couple weeks to improve the situation by adding some
> integration between github and reviewboard.
>
> As of tonight that integration has reached an initial milestone.  The
> barriers to contribution introduced by Reviewboard are essentially
> gone.  Furthermore, the automation means the review requests should
> stay in sync with the pull requests.  So I'm happy to report that,
> unless you are chaining branches (which github PRs don't support
> anyway), you shouldn't need to use rbt anymore.
>
> Currently:
>
> * a new PR automatically triggers the creation of a new review request
> * the review request has a link back to the pull request
> * updates to the PR (i.e. pushes to your branch) automatically trigger
> an update to the review request
> * closing (discard/merge) a PR automatically triggers closing the
> corresponding review request
> * re-opening a PR automatically triggers re-opening the corresponding
> review request
> * a reviewboard user gets created if there wasn't one already
>
> Nearly working:
>
> * after the review request is created, a link to it is added to a pull
> request comment
>
> Future work:
>
> * support patch queues/chained branches/etc. (via trigger in PR summary)
> * add reviewboard support to the merge bot (check for ship-it before
> doing anything)
>
> Will not happen:
>
> * automatically merge PR when given ship-it
> * PR comments (including review comments) will not be pushed to the
> corresponding review request
> * likewise reviewboard comments won't be pushed up to the corresponding PR
>
> I can't promise that the "future" work will happen in the short term,
> but I'll post any updates as they come.  Enjoy!
>
> -eric
>

Very nice. Thanks, Eric.

Cheers,
Andrew
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