[ovirt-devel] Stable branch gerrit hook and Related-To: bug

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Caro" <dcaroest at redhat.com>
> To: "Martin Sivak" <msivak at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:59:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Stable branch gerrit hook and Related-To: bug
> 
> On Thursday, August 28, 2014 01:37:13 PM David Caro wrote:
> > On 08/27, Martin Sivak wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I would like to ask if it might be possible for the gerrit hook to stop
> > > giving -1 to patches that do not have bug-url, but have related-to.
> > > 
> > > The reason for this is that I have a rather large patchset that is adding
> > > a new feature. No single patch by itself fixes the referenced bug and
> > > there are also patches that are not related to the feature itself, but
> > > were backported because they did some refactoring that was needed for the
> > > code to apply and/or work properly.

Why can't you put bug url on all of these patches?

Relates-To: is just for reference.

> > I have a couple question, which of these should happen for the
> > Related-To bugs?
> > 
> > * Should it pass the same checks than a Bug-Url?
> >   Most probably yes
> >   Right now that is:
> >     - Public
> >     - Target release
> >     - Product
> > * Should it change the bug statuses too?
> >   Most probably no
> 
> About this, the patches that have the Related-To should be taken into
> account when changing the bug to MODIFIED?

NO!

> 
> If so the bug will not be changed to MODIFIED if the last open bug uses
> Related-To tab instead og Bug-Url.

Right

Nir