[Freeipa-devel] Linking tickets in the commit messages

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Martin Kosek wrote:
>On 09/17/2015 01:47 PM, Tomas Babej wrote:
>> Hi fellow developers,
>>
>> more or less we tend to stick to the tradition of linking Trac tickets
>> to the commit messages of the patches we send to the list.
>>
>> However, every now and then, a patch lands on the list, which is either
>> linked to a BZ or does not contain any link at all. Admittedly, I am
>> also guilty of this mishap. This poses certain problems, as we're trying
>> to automate the bookkeeping and pushing-related processes with ipatool [1].
>>
>> Nevertheless, this useful habit is not formally agreed upon by
>> developers nor documented in our wiki [2]. I'd suggest we add it there,
>> if we come to such consensus.
>>
>> This would mean:
>> * Patches fixing an issue described only in BZ (rare issue) would need
>> to create a Trac ticket referencing the BZ
>
>+1
>
>> * Patches fixing an issue not tracked in Trac nor BZ would need to file
>> a ticket in Trac and reference it
>
>I am not sure we are there yet. For typos and small fixes, I do not think we
>need to create a hard requirement for a Trac ticket. But for patches that you
>want to be considered for say backports to downstream releases, it is better to
>have the ticket with the right metadata and collection of the right hashes that
>the downstream release can digest.
Yes, please do a ticket per a changeset.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy