[openstack-dev] [hacking] proposed rules drop for 1.0

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Tue Dec 9 13:16:34 UTC 2014


On 12/09/2014 07:32 AM, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:39:43AM -0500, Sean Dague wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that for hacking 1.0 we drop 2 groups of rules entirely.
>>
>> 1 - the entire H8* group. This doesn't function on python code, it
>> functions on git commit message, which makes it tough to run locally. It
>> also would be a reason to prevent us from not rerunning tests on commit
>> message changes (something we could do after the next gerrit update).
> 
> -1, We probably want to recommend a git commit message more stronger
> formatted mainly about the first line which is the most important. It
> should reflect which part of the code the commit is attended to update
> that gives the ability for contributors to quickly see on what the
> submission is related;
> 
> An example with Nova which is quite big: api, compute,
>   doc, scheduler, virt, vmware, libvirt, objects...
> 
> We should to use a prefix in the first line of commit message. There
> is a large number of commits waiting for reviews, that can help
> contributors with a knowledge in a particular domain to identify
> quickly which one to pick.

And how exactly do you expect a machine to decide if that's done correctly?

	-Sean

> 
>> 2 - the entire H3* group - because of this -
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/140168/2/nova/tests/fixtures.py,cm
>>
>> A look at the H3* code shows that it's terribly complicated, and is
>> often full of bugs (a few bit us last week). I'd rather just delete it
>> and move on.
>>
>> 	-Sean
>>
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>> Sean Dague
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