Open Stack

Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> writes:

> On 2017-05-25 08:50:14 -0500 (-0500), Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
>> Can I suggest that, for OpenStack purposes, we also deploy some sort of
>> bot that comments on reviews using the old syntax, to at least alert
>> developers to the pending deprecation?  If it had the smarts to guess
>> URLs to place in the Depends-On footer, that'd be even better.
>
> That's pretty doable as a Gerrit hook or standalone event stream
> consuming daemon. Pretty low-hanging fruit if anyone wants to
> volunteer to code that up.
>
> Alternative/complimentary idea, Gerrit hooks can also be used to
> reject uploads, so when the time comes to stop supporting the old
> syntax we can also see about rejecting new patchsets which are using
> the then-unsupported format (as long as the error can be clearly
> passed through the likes of git-review so users aren't too
> confused).

Yes, though it's also possible we may want to have Zuul itself leave
such messages.

-Jim