Experiment Golang's GerritBot for synchronizing GitHub pull requests to Gerrit
dmsimard opened this issue · comments
Golang reviews patches on Gerrit while allowing pull requests to be sent.
They do this with GerritBot which takes care of synchronizing pull requests to gerrit changes.
At a first glance, it looks fairly reliable and automatically takes care of things like:
- Squashing multiple commits from a PR to a single commit in Gerrit
- Linking the Gerrit change to the PR (with a commit footer like
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#31627) - Re-posting comments from gerrit to github
A successful implementation would allow contributors to send pull requests to the different ARA projects.
This is what it looks like from GitHub:
And this is what it looks like from Gerrit:
It turns out that sqlalchemy also mirror their PRs to gerrit but they do it differently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921021
