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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote:
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> 
> On 6/27/2014 7:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:40:51AM -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> >>It's clear that lots of projects want 3rd Party CI information on
> >>patches. But it's also clear that 6 months into this experiment with a
> >>lot of 3rd Party CI systems, the Gerrit UI is really not great for this.
> >
> >That's an understatement about the UI :-)
> >
> >>It seems what we actually want is a dashboard of these results. We want
> >>them available when we go to Gerrit, but we don't want them in Gerrit
> >>itself.
> >>
> >>What if 3rd Party CI didn't vote in Gerrit? What if it instead published
> >>to some 3rd party test reporting site (a thing that doesn't yet exist).
> >>Gerrit has the facility so that we could inject the dashboard content
> >>for this in Gerrit in a little table somewhere, but the data would
> >>fundamentally live outside of Gerrit. It would also mean that all the
> >>aggregate reporting of 3rd Party CI that's being done in custom gerrit
> >>scripts, could be integrated directly into such a thing.
> >
> >Agreed, it would be a great improvement in usability if we stopped all
> >CI systems, including our default Jenkins, from ever commenting on
> >reviews. At most gating CIs should +1/-1.  Having a table of results
> >displayed, pulling the data from an external result tracking system
> >would be a great idea.
> >
> >Even better if this external system had a nice button you can press
> >to trigger re-check, so we can stop using comments for that too.
> 
> I would disagree with this idea since it's equivalent to 'recheck no bug'
> and that's naughty, because then we don't track race bugs as well.

It could easily have a text field for entering a bug number. The point
is to stop adding comments to gerrit that aren't related to code review.

Regards,
Daniel
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