Hi everybody,
in December I mentioned the idea of having a "PATCH_AVAILABLE" or "PATCH_TO_REVIEW" status in Bugzilla [1] and that we should re-evaluate the idea once we have automatic notifications from Gerrit into Bugzilla in place [2]. This is now the case [3].
From the Amsterdam Hackathon I know that some developers would like to
filter on bug reports that have or don't have a patch in Gerrit, and easier finding of bug reports with a corresponding patch && lack of recent changes might provide another entry point for new developers (pick up the existing patch and finish it).
Hence I propose * to remove the manually set and error-prone Bugzilla keyword "patch-in-gerrit": Every bug on its way to get RESOLVED FIXED has to pass this stage anyway so a status feels more appropriate, and * to make the "Gerrit Notification Bot" automatically change the bug report status to "PATCH_AVAILABLE"/"PATCH_TO_REVIEW" in Bugzilla when a patch for that bug report has been committed (not: merged) to Gerrit.
Comments?
andre
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/065046.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/065226.html [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17322
PS: Making the Gerrit notification bot automatically close bug reports in Bugzilla after merging a patch in Gerrit, or differentiating in Bugzilla between "RESOLVED FIXED" (fix merged) and "RELEASED" (fix deployed on the Wikimedia wikisites) are also interesting topics to discuss at some point, but not in this thread. One step at a time.