[Development] Header review process: follow-up on comments

[Fabian Kosmale]

Hi,

while gerrit _didn't_ have support for it, that changed in 3.7. It needs 
to be manually enabled 
(https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.7.html#mention-user-support), but 
maybe that would be a good way forward?

Fabian

On 02.05.23 11:00, Volker Hilsheimer via Development wrote:
> With Qt 6.5, it’s been a struggle to get people to respond and follow-up to comments made during the header review process.
> 
> Gerrit doesn’t really care about @user-style mentioning in comments, even though is seems that some people assume that it does. Creating JIRA tickets is the official way of doing it, but creating a ticket just to get someone’s attention to input (which might or might not require a change) seems heavy-handed. Ultimately, lots of people will be on cc or review of the respective header-review gerrit change, so everything becomes everyone’s problem.
> 
> Maintainers have a special responsibility during header review, but esp with qtbase that is also a lot of people.
> 
> What can we do to make this a better process that doesn’t end up with changes being made very late (with 6.5 we had some the day before the release candidate, IIRC)?
> 
> Volker
> 

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