[Qt-creator] [Dev] Qt Creator Submit Policies

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On 4 Nov 2011, at 20:57, ext Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos wrote:

> On Friday 04 November 2011 16:44:23 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> On 11/04/11 08:32, ext eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
>>> I basically see these possible ways to create separate "branches":
>>> 
>>> 1) A real git branch in gerrit's qt-creator/qt-creator
>>> That would be beside the master&  release branches. *Everyone* pulling Qt
>>> Creator automatically pulls these too, so I'd say they must be very
>>> limited. Or perhaps we shouldn't use them at all for "topic branches".
>>> If we do use them, we need some sort of policy *what* may be there, and
>>> I'd say a maintainer must agree.
>> 
>> what's wrong with everyone pulling the branches?
> 
> Personnaly, that's the solution I prefer this one, as it allows more people to 
> discover the branch and maybe more people to contribute to it.
> 
> If it's not the way to go, then the wip/clang branch should be moved.

Sure, wip/clang will be made to follow whatever we decide on.

> If it's the way to go, I agree that at least one maintainer must agree, and 
> the branch is deleted when merged (or the "maintainer" of the branch declares 
> it obsolete).
> 
>>> 2) Gerrit project, qt-creator/*
>>> I suppose it would be possible to create separate (sub-)projects on
>>> gerrit, e.g. qt-creator/scriptplugin or something like that. Since these
>>> are really separate git repositories they don't affect people who pull
>>> qt-creator/qt-creator. Would be a bit similar to gitorious' repository
>>> clones. We should probably still have some sort of creation policy, and
>>> maybe also when they'll be removed again. But this could be handled with
>>> less restrictions than 1)
>> 
>> i don't want that. the gerrit gui is utterly unsuitable for managing it.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not really fond of this one. Not talking about gerrit being 
> suitable or not, but:
> * you still need an admin to create the repository

> * your work is less visible

It wouldn't be visible when just doing "git branch -a", true.
There's a full list of repos in gerrit though,
http://codereview.qt-project.org/#admin,projects
that shows all qt-creator/* repositories, that can also have their own descriptions.

>>> 3) gitorious clone or clone whereever.
>>> Has the advantage of no restriction or policies, but the disadvantages of
>>> a) missing discoverability, and b) the "CLA requires you to use a
>>> feature branch on Gerrit" point above.
> 
> I was going to do that (still early stage, didn't have more than 1h this week 
> to work on that). But I agree, the two issues given here are a problem.
> 
> I would vote for #1, as long as only maintainer can create branch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
> 
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