On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Steve Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> From: Ted Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>> I think commit-then-review will be more efficient given the
>> capabilities of our tools.
>
> I agree with this as well, modulo two points. These may be covered
> already, but I haven't seen evidence of it...
>
> 1. If this process gets too far between commit and review, there's
> increased chance there will be changes add in after the commit that
> may confuse the reviewer.

Yeah, that's always a risk though. Not much we can really do about it
either way.

> 2. I haven't seen any sort of log or diary of changes. Something that
> would, for example, list the files changed and why. Is this normally
> put in the svn commit comments? Explanatory entries in such a place
> could help the reviewer get his/her bearings and help understand what
> the committer was trying to do. Or is this info expected to be in
> jira?

I would hope that this would be in the commit message.

> Also, is there someplace relatively easy to check to see if a
> particular commit broke something?

We don't have the Apache CruiseControl running on Qpid, although there
are CC conf's checked in. I keep meaning to engage with infra@ to get
us onto there, but haven't found the cycles yet.

It sounds like consensus is building around commit-then-review with
Jira, so let's go for that. I'll start a formal vote later today.

- Aidan

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