[vtk-developers] ANN: VTK moving to topic reviews in Gerrit on Wednesday

[David Gobbi]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> The modifications have been completed.  We have updated the main VTK
> Git instructions:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git
>
> for the new workflow. Gerrit is now the main entry point for changes
> to go in master. The topic stage is dead, long live Gerrit!
>
> We will be bringing the automated build testing for topics online this
> afternoon for VTK, and hope to have this working by the end of the day
> for new VTK submissions. This will be for members of the VTK-core
> group. Any existing changes in Gerrit review can be marked as +2 for
> code review and then submitted to have it merged. Alternatively, if
> you need to modify/extend the topic pushing will create a new topic
> for review.
>
> To find members of the VTK-core group, able to give +2 on code review
> and submit changes please see the group here:
>
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/admin/groups/11,members
>
> Any topics prepared for the topic stage can be sent to Gerrit. We will
> push an updated SetupForDevelopment.sh script to mark the old aliases
> as deprecated, git gerrit-push will act in much the same way as git
> stage-push did. If you haven't run the script in a while, running it
> again will give you the opportunity to setup the Gerrit alias
> correctly and update local hooks etc.
>
> Please get in touch if you encounter any issues.

I just did a merge from Gerrit, and everything worked flawlessly.  Nice!

 - David