Hello Cinder Third-Party CI maintainers,

tl;dr - add an 'autogenerated' *tag* to your Gerrit comments [0]

The recent Gerrit update has brought some changes--many good ones, but also some problems. The good news is that it is within your control to fix one of the issues we're seeing.

The issue is that we lost the "Toggle CI" button in the old Gerrit, whose function was to hide all the CI comments on a review so that only the human reviewers' comments were displayed. It's a problem for reviewers because other human reviewers' comments are easily missed. So we'd like to be able to easily hide the CI comments in the new interface.

(Don't worry--your CI's results are nicely displayed within the "Zuul Summary" tab on the interface, so hiding the comments aren't going to make your CI results more difficult to find. They are already clearly displayed in their own table.)

In the new Gerrit interface, when you have the "Files" tab active, below the list of changed files, there is a "Change Log" tab. Right underneath it, there is a "Only Comments" toggle. When it's activated, currently all the comments from OpenStack Zuul are hidden. But the comments from other CIs are not.

Your CI's comments will be hidden if you include an 'autogenerated' tag in your review input. If you are using zuul, include the tag: autogenerated:zuul

Other CI systems should use the tag: autogenerated:yourCIname

If your CI system uses ssh to communicate with Gerrit, you can find info about adding a tag here: https://review.opendev.org/Documentation/cmd-review.html (you specify a --tag option)

If your CI system uses http to communicate with Gerrit, you can find info about adding a tag here: https://review.opendev.org/Documentation/rest-api-changes.html#set-review (you specify it in the JSON request body)

The Cinder team will really appreciate your quick attention to this matter!

thanks, brian

[0] https://review.opendev.org/Documentation/rest-api-changes.html#review-input