[OpenStack-Infra] Gerritbot
Anita Kuno
anteaya at anteaya.info
Tue Mar 1 15:04:00 UTC 2016
On 03/01/2016 10:02 AM, C.J. Collier wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. I'll bring my thoughts to gerrit in that
> case!
Wonderful, thank you C.J.,
Anita.
> On Mar 1, 2016 06:57, "Anita Kuno" <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:
>
>> On 03/01/2016 09:39 AM, C.J. Collier wrote:
>>> Hello Anita,
>>>
>>> You bet. I'll get it in to gerrit shortly. It's not ready to be merged
>>> quite yet. I just wanted to start a conversation.
>>
>> I totally understand. Having a conversation before a patch is merged
>> makes perfect sense.
>>
>> For us, that conversation takes place in gerrit on a patch rather than
>> on a mailing list in a thread. Gerrit has the option of setting workflow
>> -1 on a patch so the owner of the patch can indicate the patch is not
>> ready to be merged.
>>
>> When conversations about patches and approaches take place in gerrit,
>> folks who may not have been present for the beginning of the
>> conversation are able to see the history of comments on the patch and
>> can get themselves up to date. Contributors have become very adept at
>> using gerrit to sort patches and follow a conversation as it is ongoing
>> for patches in which they are interested.
>>
>> For instance here is a conversation that has been going on for 2 weeks
>> and is on its 10th patchset: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/282295/
>>
>> Let us know in infra if you have any questions about submitting a
>> patchset to gerrit.
>>
>> Thanks C.J.,
>> Anita.
>>
>>>
>>> For instance, would anyone be opposed to using a syslog sink for logging
>>> rather than opening up a dedicated file? There are a lot of files (pid,
>>> log, config, channel list) being handled here, and directories for output
>>> files (/var/run/gerritbot, /var/log/gerritbot) need to be managed by the
>>> init script and kept in sync with the values in the config files. Fewer
>> is
>>> better in my opinion, and hooking in to the syslog infrastructure means
>>> getting remote logging for no additional cost. However, for systems
>>> without syslog facilities, I guess it make sense to have a dedicated log
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think,
>>>
>>> C.J.
>>> On Mar 1, 2016 00:16, "Anita Kuno" <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/01/2016 01:22 AM, C.J. Collier wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Clark! I found the same thing. I've added a few of options
>> and a
>>>>> dependency on the getopt library. Take a look at this patch and let me
>>>>> know if there's anything you'd like me to add / remove.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> C.J.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the patch, C.J.
>>>>
>>>> We put all our patches up in gerrit for review rather than attaching
>>>> diffs to emails, it is just our workflow.
>>>>
>>>> You might find http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
>>>> interesting as it outlines our workflow including steps to get all the
>>>> account signups in order so you can submit a patch to gerrit.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your interest in gerritbot, C.J. We appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> Anita.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Clark Boylan <cboylan at sapwetik.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, at 01:26 PM, C.J. Collier wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm having a heck of a time getting gerritbot working. It currently
>>>>>>> exits
>>>>>>> prematurely without any console output and returns 0 to the calling
>>>>>>> process. No entries in the logs. Very frustrating. Can I get some
>>>> help
>>>>>>> with this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at the source [0] it uses a default pid lock file path, if I
>> had
>>>>>> to guess the user running the process isn't able to write to that
>>>>>> directory or it does not exist. You can specify an alternate path
>> under
>>>>>> ircbot.pid in the ini config file if I am reading that correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [0]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/gerritbot/tree/gerritbot/bot.py#n344
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>> Clark
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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