On 31 March 2012 10:56, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
We already have the fixme feature. That is done by down voting a patchset in the codereview field (the infamous : "I would prefer that you didn't submit this").
No that isn't fixme. Fixme means "something needs fixing in this commit which is already merged". This could also be solved with the free form tagging feature. Unfortunately it has been sitting in upstream bugzilla for three years without any activity. Can we really afford to wait if/when they are going to implement it?
The follow up we have been abusing is also build in since you usually just send a second patch. A follow up to a previous merge is either a new feature or a bug fix, it can still reference the change number but I am not sure there is any value in doing so.
There is huge benefit knowing what subsequent fixes/changes has been done to the commit you are currently looking at. Gerrit will reduce the amount of follow-ups, but they will still exist. -Niklas