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

[Alex Blasche]

Earlier this week I discussed https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-4763 with Eddy. He will look into it. At the very least it creates more but also more targetted review requests. Especially qtbase suffers from this. It should make the responsibility of the maintainers more obvious. Hopefully we can manage to get this for the 6.6 review round.

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Alex


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From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Fabian Kosmale via Development <development at qt-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 2 May 2023 11:33
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Header review process: follow-up on comments

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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