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add on request 'ci help' command via Gerrit

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On 23 February 2017 at 15:10, Martin Sivak <msivak@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do you think it would make sense to send a copy-and-paste ready
> message with help to every new gerrit change?
>
> It could provide all the system test (lago) links, mention the Rerun
> hooks syntax and so on. Just so we do not have to search for it all
> the time?

This is doable, but I think experienced users may find this annoying
it ifs too long.

I'm thinking it may be better to have such a message just suggesting
to type something like '@ci help' to get the full help.

It may even be possible to make it clickable with some trickery rather
then just copy-and-paster ready (I will need to check if its possible
to inject links into Gerrit comments).

Apart from that, Roy offered to write a Gerrit plugin that will add
buttons with the various CI commands.

Adding infra-support to get a Jira ticket opened.

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Barak Korren
bkorren@redhat.com
RHCE, RHCi, RHV-DevOps Team
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Barak Korren July 12, 2017 at 12:20 PM

this is mostly starved for manpower... We did manage to implement some of the infrastructure we would need to put this in place as part of the CQ work.

Martin Sivak July 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM

Any update? Was there any survey yet? Almost half a year is plenty of time already.

Martin Sivak February 27, 2017 at 9:59 AM

Eyal, it was my request inspired by Kubernetes. One message per changeset (first comment) is hardly obtrusive and it can provide customized links for the patchset (real links with proper IDs instead of just a generic help message).

Please realize that we want to have as low barrier of entry as possible, so everything has to be immediately obvious from the first message (either a direct link or copy/paste command). There are also people who do not really use the UI too much (we get all the comments using email too) so UI improvement does not solve it for those cases.

But feel free to do a survey.

Eyal Edri February 26, 2017 at 5:02 PM

I still think its worth asking the developers again, proposing the relevant options, after all it was their request as you say.
Also, one or two developers might have different ideas then the majority, so we'll need an agreement on one suggestion from the majority.

Barak Korren February 26, 2017 at 4:55 PM

I think top of gerrit or the 1st comment in gerrit are visually equivalent, with the difference that the 1st comment is easier to implement atm...

WRT to developer survey - remember that the suggestion for this came from the developers...

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Created February 23, 2017 at 1:19 PM
Updated June 24, 2018 at 8:34 AM