[Kde-scm-interest] Testing instance of Gerrit for KDE

[Jan Kundrát]

Hi folks,
there's now a testing Gerrit instance at [1]. You can play around in the 
"dummy" project using your KDE Identity account. For a generic primer on 
what Gerrit is and how to use it, please refer to Qt's documentation [2].

For those of you who are already familiar with Gerrit and willing to use it 
for your projects, please write me a mail and I'll make the necessary 
changes. Be careful -- what you approve in Gerrit will end up on git.k.o 
and vice versa. Since all KDE developers are equal, they all have the same 
privileges in Gerrit, and therefore any KDE developer can approve and 
submit any change to any KDE project.

It's in a testing mode, so there are a couple of caveats:

- You will have to add your SSH pubkeys as Gerrit doesn't support 
retrieving them from LDAP. There's an upstream bugreport for this problem 
[3]; if you know Java, I'm sure they will appreciate patches.

- There are no regular backups at this point, and the service is provided 
on a best-effort basis.

- New projects aren't created in there automatically. One has to do it by 
hand for now -- just write me a mail.

- There's, sadly, no integration with the CI system just yet. I will 
definitely fix this one later, but the time was much shorter than I 
expected. My ultimate goal is to have the following two options for each 
KDE project:

1) Ignore Gerrit for whatever reason. Use direct pushes and let CI verify 
stuff ex-post, once it was pushed. This is how all KDE projects work today.

2) Use Gerrit for patch review and enforce a successful CI pass before a 
patch enters any regular branch in git.kde.org. Don't use RB because it 
isn't integrated with CI. Disable direct pushes to git.kde.org by 
developers as that bypasses the CI.

Option #2 is how I would like Trojita to work, but there's a long road 
ahead until this is feasible. I also don't want to force this workflow upon 
anyone, so I am open for debates, etc.

I'll be talking [4] about this setup on Sunday at the Akademy. If you are 
interested, be sure to show up there. I'll also be available for the rest 
of Akademy to set up projects for you, help you get started, etc.

Should we scherdule a BoF for this? Who would be interested in attending? 
What would be the best time?

If there are any problems or in case you like this service, please let me 
know -- feedback is much appreciated.

Finally, maybe some of you already know Gerrit and would like to become 
administrators to help with its maintenance. Volunteers are welcome, I have 
no intention of becomimg a bottleneck.

With kind regards,
Jan

[1] https://gerrit.vesnicky.cesnet.cz/
[2] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Gerrit_Introduction
[3] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1124
[4] https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/140

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