[JIRA] (OVIRT-1193) add on request 'ci help' command via Gerrit

[Barak Korren (oVirt JIRA)]

    [ https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1193?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=27855#comment-27855 ] 

Barak Korren commented on OVIRT-1193:
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The thing is - if last week's events taught us anything is that people are not willing to remember anything - not even one command.

I thing that a short enough message, that will appear once and only once when a patch (patch! not patchset!) is created, is unobtrusive enough to not be annoying. The huge benefit of this is that now no one can say he never heard that there is a CI system and it has commands.

This will also be a good place to warn new contributors about not being in the whitelist and tell them what to do.

> add on request 'ci help' command via Gerrit
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OVIRT-1193
>                 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1193
>             Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy
>          Issue Type: By-EMAIL
>          Components: Gerrit/git
>            Reporter: Barak Korren
>            Assignee: infra
>
> On 23 February 2017 at 15:10, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > do you think it would make sense to send a copy-and-paste ready
> > message with help to every new gerrit change?
> >
> > It could provide all the system test (lago) links, mention the Rerun
> > hooks syntax and so on. Just so we do not have to search for it all
> > the time?
> This is doable, but I think experienced users may find this annoying
> it ifs too long.
> I'm thinking it may be better to have such a message just suggesting
> to type something like '@ci help' to get the full help.
> It may even be possible to make it clickable with some trickery rather
> then just copy-and-paster ready (I will need to check if its possible
> to inject links into Gerrit comments).
> Apart from that, Roy offered to write a Gerrit plugin that will add
> buttons with the various CI commands.
> Adding infra-support to get a Jira ticket opened.
> -- 
> Barak Korren
> bkorren at redhat.com
> RHCE, RHCi, RHV-DevOps Team
> https://ifireball.wordpress.com/



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