Document that positive votes on design docs are sticky

For design docs it is often the case that people vote with Code-Review+1
to express their consent with the contents, but then these votes get
lost when minor issues such as nits, spelling mistakes, rephrasing,
adding some more points are addressed. Reviewers which already gave
their consent often don't come back after each iteration to re-apply
their Code-Review+1 vote, so that in the end it can look like there is
not much support for a design, while in fact many people agreed to it
(and just their Code-Review+1 votes are no longer visible). This makes
it more difficult to reason about approving a design by the ESC.

To improve this situation change I357351cd0 makes all positive
Code-Review votes in the homepage repo sticky. To prevent that
significant changes that are made by new patch sets stay unnoticed it is
the responsibility of the uploader to manually remove all positive votes
in this case. This change documents this.

Bug: Issue 12025
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
Change-Id: I09177d70e1a19755cab228a83dacea7175cbdfa7
1 file changed
tree: a54d6ba56b506c969ca233614561560950b632e8
  1. .settings/
  2. antlr3/
  3. contrib/
  4. Documentation/
  5. e2e-tests/
  6. java/
  7. javatests/
  8. lib/
  9. modules/
  10. plugins/
  11. polygerrit-ui/
  12. prolog/
  13. prologtests/
  14. proto/
  15. resources/
  16. tools/
  17. webapp/
  18. .bazelignore
  19. .bazelproject
  20. .bazelrc
  21. .bazelversion
  22. .editorconfig
  23. .git-blame-ignore-revs
  24. .gitignore
  25. .gitmodules
  26. .gitreview
  27. .mailmap
  28. .pydevproject
  29. BUILD
  30. COPYING
  31. INSTALL
  32. Jenkinsfile
  33. package.json
  34. README.md
  35. SUBMITTING_PATCHES
  36. version.bzl
  37. WORKSPACE
README.md

Gerrit Code Review

Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects.

Build Status

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Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.

Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.

Documentation

For information about how to install and use Gerrit, refer to the documentation.

Source

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Reporting bugs

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Contribute

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Note that we do not accept Pull Requests via the Github mirror.

Getting in contact

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License

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Build

Install Bazel and run the following:

    git clone --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
    cd gerrit && bazel build release

Install binary packages (Deb/Rpm)

The instruction how to configure GerritForge/BinTray repositories is here

On Debian/Ubuntu run:

    apt-get update & apt-get install gerrit=<version>-<release>

NOTE: release is a counter that starts with 1 and indicates the number of packages that have been released with the same version of the software.

On CentOS/RedHat run:

    yum clean all && yum install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

On Fedora run:

    dnf clean all && dnf install gerrit-<version>[-<release>]

Use pre-built Gerrit images on Docker

Docker images of Gerrit are available on DockerHub

To run a CentOS 7 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-centos7[:version]

To run a Ubuntu 15.04 based Gerrit image:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 gerritforge/gerrit-ubuntu15.04[:version]

NOTE: release is optional. Last released package of the version is installed if the release number is omitted.