Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Christian, On 02/06/17 12:17, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: On 02/06/17 10:55, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: It is to prevent people from impersonating somebody else. Think about someone tr

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Paul, On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: > On 02/06/17 10:55, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >> It is to prevent people from impersonating somebody else. >> >> Think about someone trying your email to introduce a backdoor ...

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, On 02/06/17 12:00, jan iversen wrote: Sorry, I still don’t see where the additional step is? you submit the patch to gerrit, that does not put it into our core repo, but only to the gerrit review repo. In order to merge the patch into our core repo(typically master) a committer,

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread jan iversen
> Sorry, I still don’t see where the additional step is? > you submit the patch to gerrit, that does not put it into our core repo, but only to the gerrit review repo. In order to merge the patch into our core repo(typically master) a committer, needs to hit merge in gerrit, then will mark the

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Christian, On 02/06/17 10:55, Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: I was asked to push a commit for review to the LO Gerrit instance [1]. The patch is from a colleague, who is denoted as the commit author. No Gerrit complains, that I am not the a

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, On 02/06/17 10:56, jan iversen wrote: Sorry, I didn’t understand *you have one step more merging to git*. Patches in Gerrit are for review, when reviewed a committer merged them to the git repo e.g, master, and from that time the are part of the LibreOffice code base. Sorry, I

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread jan iversen
> > Sorry, I didn’t understand *you have one step more merging to git*. Patches in Gerrit are for review, when reviewed a committer merged them to the git repo e.g, master, and from that time the are part of the LibreOffice code base. rgds jan i __

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Paul, *, On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > I was asked to push a commit for review to the LO Gerrit instance [1]. > > The patch is from a colleague, who is denoted as the commit author. No > Gerrit complains, that I am not the author, and my colleagues email address > is

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, On 02/06/17 10:43, jan iversen wrote: I don’t see how that is required. In Gerrit, it would still be clear, who pushed the patch (owner). > yes but you have one step more merging to git, and if that is done by a third person information would be lost. Sorry, I didn’t understan

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread jan iversen
> I don’t see how that is required. In Gerrit, it would still be clear, who > pushed the patch (owner). yes but you have one step more merging to git, and if that is done by a third person information would be lost. > Please tell me how. Do you want me send the patch to the mailing list? yes or

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, On 02/06/17 10:32, Jan Iversen wrote: The gerrit allows people with committer status, to push patches for other people. In that case the email addr, from the person pushing becomes committer email, and the email from from patch owner becomes the author. To do this please remember

Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Jan Iversen
Hi The gerrit allows people with committer status, to push patches for other people. In that case the email addr, from the person pushing becomes committer email, and the email from from patch owner becomes the author. To do this please remember to use —author and —author-email in the commit s

Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear LibreOffice folks, I was asked to push a commit for review to the LO Gerrit instance [1]. The patch is from a colleague, who is denoted as the commit author. No Gerrit complains, that I am not the author, and my colleagues email address is not registered to *my* Gerrit account. Could y