[Development] Suggestion to add labels when changing API
Edward Welbourne
edward.welbourne at qt.io
Fri Dec 8 14:23:32 CET 2017
On 07/12/2017 17:22, Liang Qi wrote:
>> The changes that are important to be merged up before other changes
>> should have a special tag, such as API_CHANGE in the commit
>> message. Then the script used to do the merges could stop and/or warn
>> about commits with this tag in the message, which would make the
>> merge easier. We can also apply this check into the submodule update
>> script.
Tor Arne Vestbø (8 December 2017 13:41)
> Can't the script detect this by looking for changes to public headers?
That's possible (albeit possibly trickier than you think), but not all
changes to public headers present a problem that this needs to attend
to. Our API reviews do require actual reviewers, after all.
Eddy, who has no idea what sync.profile pinning is.
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