[ovirt-devel] Gerrit parallel patch handling and CI (Or, why did my code fail post-merge)

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
>> With the current setting (in vdsm), submitting a series of patches is
>> a huge pain. Sometimes refreshing the page and submitting the next
>> patch in the series works, but sometimes you have to rebase again
>> the next patches in the series, and in the worst cases, you have to
>> do several rebases in the same series. This when the entire series
>> was already rebased properly before the submit.
>
> Actually vdsm is configured to "Cherry Pick" ATM, I'm not sure what
> were the reasons for this, but this should probably be changed to
> ff-only ASAP b/c as it is, it allows patches to be submitted
> completely out-of-order.
>
>> In vdsm we were bitten by this many times, and both Dan and me agree
>> now that fast-forward is the only way.
>>
>> I don't think we need to agree on all projects for this, the whole point
>> of having multiple project is that we don't to agree on every little
>> detail, the project maintainer can do whatever they want.
>
> Ok, so can we get an agreement between the vdsm maintainers to change
> to "ff-only"?

+1

Dan, can you confirm?