svn commit: r313675 - in head/sys: netinet netinet6
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 12 18:33:33 UTC 2017
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:24:26AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <53D3A92C-6C64-4C0C-A5E6-B659BFA139BF at neville-neil.com>, "George Neville-Neil" writes:
> > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 3156 and 4880).
> > On 12 Feb 2017, at 6:10, Glen Barber wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 06:56:33AM +0000, Ermal Lu=C3=A7i wrote:
> > >> Author: eri
> > >> Date: Sun Feb 12 06:56:33 2017
> > >> New Revision: 313675
> > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313675
> > >>
> > >> Log:
> > >> Committed without approval from mentor.
> > >>
> > >> Reported by: gnn
> > >>
> > >
> > > What exactly does this mean?
> > >
> >
> > Ermal took the Acceptance on reviews.freebsd.org by Adrian as an implicit
> > "go ahead" to commit to the tree. The issue is that he's still under
> > mentorship, by me, and had not gotten an approval or had an Approved by:
> > line. I asked him to revert the change himself.
> >
> > We're working out a few more issues in the review now.
>
> I didn't read this when I hit send on my email. Hopefully nobody takes
> offense. I was upset and still am.
>
> I still think that the revision numbers of any backout should have been
> documented in the commit log.
>
I absolutely agree, and was the key meaning behind my "what exactly does
this mean?" reply. The commit log, as-is, provides nothing useful to
the reader.
> Something we could do, as is expected by re@ for commits during a freeze,
> is metees also let their mentors know of what the contents of commit log
> messages will be. I think commit log messages discussing the what, why and
> rationale are as important as the code itself.
>
I thought this was standard practice. But if not, I would agree that
both code changes and the commit log should be both approved by the
mentor.
Just my $0.02 USD.
Glen
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