[Development] GitHub Pull requests

[Alexandru Croitor]

> On 11. Mar 2020, at 07:48, Richard Weickelt <richard at weickelt.de> wrote:
> 
>>> In an ideal world...
>>> 
>>> - Alice opens a pull request on GitHub.
>>> - A bot sees the PR and opens a corresponding request on Gerrit.
>>> - Bob comments on the Gerrit request.
>>> - A bot sees Bob's comment and replicates it to the GitHub PR.
>>> - Alice replies (on GitHub) to Bob's comment.
>>> - A bot sees Alice's comment and replicates it to Gerrit.
>>> 
>>> ...and so on.
>> 
>> Then Bob asks Alice to make a change in commit, and she has to make
>> push -f in her branch. After that, review comments on GitHub are smashed,
>> while remain perfectly readable in Gerrit, and Bob can see difference
>> between patch versions while Alice cannot.
> 
> There is a github plugin for Gerrit that promises some form of integration:
> 
>    https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/github/

I searched a bit and found a sample github pull request, and its associated Gerrit change.

https://review.gerrithub.io/c/eclipse/titan.EclipsePlug-ins/+/486885
https://github.com/eclipse/titan.EclipsePlug-ins/pull/572

Looks like all commits inside the PR (2 in this case) + an additional commit for the merge get merged into Gerrit (rather than cherry-picked).

Don't know if it's configurable behaviour, somebody would have to play with the plugin.

> 
> It seems to be enabled on gerrithub:
> 
>    http://gerrithub.io/
> 
>    "GitHub pull requests
>     Keep in touch with external users synchronizing
>     pull requests with reviews."
> 
>    "Pull requests with Gerrit
>     Fetch your GitHub pull requests and upload them
>     in Gerrit for review. Enable a single point of
>     validation of the Code Review workflow and keep
>     your external contributors up-to-date on GitHub."
> 
> I haven't tried it though. Does it work? Maybe there is a project on
> https://review.gerrithub.io/ where you can see github PR syncing in action.
> 
> Richard
> _______________________________________________
> Development mailing list
> Development at qt-project.org
> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development