[Development] [FYI] on gerrit change retargeting requests

[Marc Mutz]

On Monday 05 September 2016 19:20:29 J-P Nurmi wrote:
> > On 05 Sep 2016, at 18:53, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 31 August 2016 16:12:55 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >> with the upcoming qtcon and my subsequent vacation, my availability will
> >> be rather sporadic, so consider this:
> >> - i'm not going to do reviews on a regular basis, so it's unwise to just
> >> 
> >>  add me to them and expect a reaction. send me a direct mail.
> >>  - this recommendation actually applies irrespective of current plans -
> >>  
> >>    sometimes i actually want to get some work done instead of just doing
> >>    reviews. ;)
> >> 
> >> - you can also ask frederik gladhorn (fregl)
> >> 
> >> generally speaking, send a complete list of change urls, as we can just
> >> paste that into the script which performs the operation. that's also the
> >> reason why a single mail (or irc messsage) instead of adding us to n
> >> reviews is always preferred. please don't give verbal descriptions of
> >> ranges - somebody has to do the click and paste orgy anyway, and that
> >> should be you. ;)
> > 
> > And please, pretty please, don't _abandon_ changes and resubmit them to a
> > different branch. _Do_ ask Ossi or Frederik to re-target on the server,
> > _esp_ if you've already run into half a dozen revisions. Submitting a
> > new change without the ability to use inter-change diffs is just rude
> > towards the reviewers.
> 
> Let us move our own changes. If you're worried about abuse, downgrade any
> +2 to +1 on branch change. Problem solved.

It's not about restricting what a user can do. It's simply missing 
implementation, and I believe that if it were easy to implement, Ossi would 
have done it long ago instead of playing retarget-monkey for the rest of us :)

Thanks,
Marc

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