On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Clark Boylan <clark.boy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Gerrit has long supported "Draft" patchsets, and the infra team has long > recommended against using them as they are a source of bugs and > confusion (see below for specific details if you are curious). The newer > version of Gerrit that we recently upgraded to allows us to prevent > people from pushing new Draft patchsets. We will take advantage of this > and disable pushes of new Drafts on Friday May 30, 2014. > > The impact of this change should be small. You can use the Work in > Progress state instead of Drafts for new patchsets. Any existing > Draft patchsets will remain in a Draft state until it is published. > > Now for the fun details on why drafts are broken. > > * Drafts appear to be "secure" but they offer no security. This is bad > for user expectations and may expose data that shouldn't be exposed. > * Draft patchsets pushed after published patchsets confuse reviewers as > they cannot vote with a value because the latest patchset is hidden. > * Draft patchsets confuse the Gerrit event stream output making it > difficult for automated tooling to do the correct thing with Drafts. > * Child changes of Drafts will fail to merge without explanation. > > Let us know if you have any questions, > > Clark (on behalf of the infra team)
Heads up everyone, this is now in effect and pushes of new draft patchsets have been disabled. Thanks, Clark _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
