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

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Sivak" <msivak at redhat.com>
> To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: "David Caro" <dcaroest at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 3:53:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Stable branch gerrit hook and Related-To: bug
> 
> > What if gerrit used the dependency info and would not -1 patches
> > that are dependency of a patch with a bug url?
> 
> That is not a bad idea, but there is one use case you do not consider.. it
> would mean that feature cannot be merged before it is completed.
> 
> I like my patches to be merged as soon as possible. Of course if the patches
> leave the tree in working state.

Right

> 
> The patchset that started this thread already depends on about 15 patches
> that were merged to master two moths ago.

So how about:

Required-For: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1096197

You must merge this to get the bug fixed, but the bug status is not
changed when merged.

The hook can add the patch to the bug as a tracker.

David, can we easily add such tag?

NIr