[vtk-developers] Driving away your existing developers

[David E DeMarle]

The idea of having gerrit automatically add reviewers is a small tweak that
will improve things greatly.

Can we have a simple gerrit side hook that adds the previous 3 authors of
all touched files?


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> One thing we can hope to do better next time to not alienate the old
> timers (including myself).
>
> * The transition from CVS to today's gerrit workflow was necessarily long,
> but there were frequent adjustments along the way as we learned and built
> up the infrastructure. Every change in the process meant retraining all of
> the (self interested and busy) contributors.
>
> Whatever our end goal is with the new infrastructure - we need to work
> harder to minimize the number of changes to the commit process, to keep the
> contribution process as dead simple as it can be, and to describe the
> mechanics clearly and loudly.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/28/2014 11:07 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
>> > 1) a 'commits' email list, like other projects.  Where you get an
>> > email for every merge into master.
>>
>> We've had one of these since CVS days:
>>
>>  http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-commit
>>
>> It still works.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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