Talk:Development Team/Code Review

Experimental workflow for doing reviews on mailing-list

On the submitter end:

 git commit -s
 git format-patch -1
 git send-email --to maintainer --cc list foo.patch

Anyone who sees the patch can reply with inline comments. Multiple reviews are welcome.

The reviewer can conclude the message with one of these tags:

 Acked-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@sugarlabs.org>
 Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@sugarlabs.org>
 Tested-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@sugarlabs.org>

Only module maintainers and peers can ack a patch. In case someone has doubts about the meanings of the above tags, here's the detailed description.

If submitter has commit access to the repository, he/she amends the patch to incorporate

suggestions and to append any collected tags to the changelog:

 git commit --amend
 git push
 (submitters with multiple patches in their queue may need to rebase or switch to a clean branch)

In case the patch closes a bug in Trac, submitter closes the bug mentioning the commit ID as usual

If a module maintainer does not wish to approve patches submitted by email, simply state it, so we don't needlessly disappoint contributors. If a submitter still prefers the old workflow, they can keep filing patches in the bug tracker as before.

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