On 31 March 2012 10:56, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
We already have the fixme feature. That is done by
down voting a
patchset in the codereview field (the infamous : "I would prefer that
you didn't submit this").
No that isn't fixme. Fixme means "something needs fixing in this
commit which is already merged". This could also be solved with the
free form tagging feature. Unfortunately it has been sitting in
upstream bugzilla for three years without any activity. Can we really
afford to wait if/when they are going to implement it?
The follow up we have been abusing is also build in
since you usually
just send a second patch. A follow up to a previous merge is either a
new feature or a bug fix, it can still reference the change number but I
am not sure there is any value in doing so.
There is huge benefit knowing what subsequent fixes/changes has been
done to the commit you are currently looking at. Gerrit will reduce
the amount of follow-ups, but they will still exist.
-Niklas
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Niklas Laxström