git-review/CONTRIBUTING.rst
Jeremy Stanley c1b6e647d9 Add a note about contribution priorities
It's been poorly documented so far that the current git-review
maintainers are avoiding addition of new features. Gerrit-based
change workflows are already confusing enough to new users, and
providing them with too many complex options risks making things
worse. This tool's goal is to do a few things well and simply in
support of an opinionated workflow, without becoming everything to
everyone.

Since git-review sees broad usage outside the OpenStack contributor
community, it is subject to a lot of drive-by feature additions. Add
a note to the contributing document indicating its maintainers
consider it to be mostly complete (modulo bug fixes, compatibility
improvements, adding test coverage), so that readers will consider
strongly whether their particular improvement is well suited to the
existing scope of the tool.

Change-Id: I11b9f898286b75177493af31e209c2853d78f245
2017-11-17 03:46:01 +00:00

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Contributing to git-review
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This tool is considered mostly feature-complete by its authors. It
is meant to provide a simple, convenient tool for users of basic
Gerrit change workflows. Contributions fixing bugs or regressions,
maintaining support for newer Gerrit/Git releases and improving test
coverage are welcome and encouraged. It is not, however, intended as
an all-encompassing Gerrit client (there are plenty of other tools
available supporting more advanced interactions), so proposed
feature additions may make more sense implemented as complimentary
``git`` subcommands or similar related but separate projects.
To get the latest code, see: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/git-review
Bugs are handled at: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/719
There is a mailing list at: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
Code reviews, as you might expect, are handled by gerrit at:
https://review.openstack.org
See http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow for details. Pull
requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
Use ``git review`` to submit patches (after creating a gerrit account
that links to your launchpad account). Example::
# Do your commits
git review
# Enter your username if prompted