Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-30 Thread Ismael Juma
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: > I wasn't aware of this history, thanks for explaining! > No problem. :) In most Apache projects I contributed to, the list of things that are > stated in "reviewed by" are implied in a committer committing the > patch. Reviewers are there t

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-30 Thread Gwen Shapira
I wasn't aware of this history, thanks for explaining! In most Apache projects I contributed to, the list of things that are stated in "reviewed by" are implied in a committer committing the patch. Reviewers are there to help the committer make the decision (thats why I sometimes mention "@ewencp

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: > I guess we see the "reviewer" part with different interpretations. > Yes. As you know, Git was created for and initially used by the Linux Kernel. As such they were very influential in conventions, terminology and best practices. This is wha

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Gwen Shapira
I guess we see the "reviewer" part with different interpretations. What are the benefits you see of formalizing who gets mentioned as reviewer? On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ismael Juma wrote: > Hi Gwen, > > Thanks for the feedback. Comments below. > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Gwen S

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi Parth, On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Parth Brahmbhatt < pbrahmbh...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > +1 on Gwen¹s suggestion. > > Consider this as my thank you for all the reviews everyone has done in > past and are going to do in future. Don¹t make me say thanks on every > single commit. Introduc

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi Gwen, Thanks for the feedback. Comments below. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: > The jira comment is a way for the committer to say "thank you" to > people who were involved in the review process. If we just want to say thank you, then why not just say that then? Using

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Parth Brahmbhatt
+1 on Gwen¹s suggestion. Consider this as my thank you for all the reviews everyone has done in past and are going to do in future. Don¹t make me say thanks on every single commit. Introducing another process when the project has > 50 PR open pretty much all the time is not really going to help.

Re: [DISCUSS] Reviewers in commit message

2015-07-29 Thread Gwen Shapira
My two cents: The jira comment is a way for the committer to say "thank you" to people who were involved in the review process. It doesn't have any formal implications - the responsibility for committing good code is on the committer (thats the whole point). It doesn't even have informal implicati