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-coreboot Gerrit Etiquette and Guidelines
-========================================
-
-The following rules are the requirements for behavior in the coreboot
-codebase in gerrit. These have mainly been unwritten rules up to this
-point, and should be familiar to most users who have been active in
-coreboot for a period of time. Following these rules will help reduce
-friction in the community.
-
-Note that as with many rules, there are exceptions. Some have been noted
-in the 'More Detail' section. If you feel there is an exception not listed
-here, please discuss it in the mailing list to get this document updated.
-Don't just assume that it's okay, even if someone on IRC says it is.
-
-
-Summary:
---------
-These are the expectations for committing, reviewing, and submitting code
-into coreboot git and gerrit. While breaking individual rules may not have
-immediate consequences, the coreboot leadership may act on repeated or
-flagrant violations with or without notice.
-
-* Don't violate the licenses.
-* Let non-trivial patches sit in a review state for at least 24 hours
-before submission.
-* Try to coordinate with platform maintainers when making changes to
-platforms.
-* If you give a patch a -2, you are responsible for giving concrete
-recommendations for what could be changed to resolve the issue the patch
-addresses.
-* Don't modify other people's patches without their consent.
-* Be respectful to others when commenting.
-* Don’t submit patches that you know will break other platforms.
-
-
-More detail:
-------------
-* Don't violate the licenses. If you're submitting code that you didn't
-write yourself, make sure the license is compatible with the license of the
-project you're submitting the changes to. If you’re submitting code that
-you wrote that might be owned by your employer, make sure that your
-employer is aware and you are authorized to submit the code. For
-clarification, see the Developer's Certificate of Origin in the coreboot
-[Signed-off-by policy](https://www.coreboot.org/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure).
-
-* Let non-trivial patches sit in a review state for at least 24 hours
-before submission. Remember that there are coreboot developers in timezones
-all over the world, and everyone should have a chance to contribute.
-Trivial patches would be things like whitespace changes or spelling fixes.
-In general, small changes that don’t impact the final binary output. The
-24-hour period would start at submission, and would be restarted at any
-update which significantly changes any part of the patch. Patches can be
-'Fast-tracked' and submitted in under this 24 hour with the agreement of at
-least 3 +2 votes.
-
-* Do not +2 patches that you authored or own, even for something as trivial
-as whitespace fixes. When working on your own patches, it’s easy to
-overlook something like accidentally updating file permissions or git
-submodule commit IDs. Let someone else review the patch. An exception to
-this would be if two people worked in the patch together. If both +2 the
-patch, that is acceptable, as each is giving a +2 to the other's work.
-
-* Try to coordinate with platform maintainers and other significant
-contributors to the code when making changes to platforms. The platform
-maintainers are the users who initially pushed the code for that platform,
-as well as users who have made significant changes to a platform. To find
-out who maintains a piece of code, please use util/scripts/maintainers.go
-or refer to the original author of the code in git log.
-
-* If you give a patch a -2, you are responsible for giving concrete
-recommendations for what could be changed to resolve the issue the patch
-addresses. If you feel strongly that a patch should NEVER be merged, you
-are responsible for defending your position and listening to other points
-of view. Giving a -2 and walking away is not acceptable, and may cause your
- -2 to be removed by the coreboot leadership after no less than a week. A
- notification that the -2 will be removed unless there is a response will
- be sent out at least 2 days before it is removed.
-
-* Don't modify other people's patches unless you have coordinated this with
-the owner of that patch. Not only is this considered rude, but your changes
-could be unintentionally lost. An exception to this would be for patches
-that have not been updated for more than 90 days. In that case, the patch
-can be taken over if the original author does not respond to requests for
-updates. Alternatively, a new patch can be pushed with the original
-content, and both patches should be updated to reference the other.
-
-* Be respectful to others when commenting on patches. Comments should
-be kept to the code, and should be kept in a polite tone. We are a
-worldwide community and English is a difficult language. Assume your
-colleagues are intelligent and do not intend disrespect. Resist the urge to
-retaliate against perceived verbal misconduct, such behavior is not
-conducive to getting patches merged.
-
-* Don’t submit code that you know will break other platforms. If your patch
-affects code that is used by other platforms, it should be compatible with
-those platforms. While it would be nice to update any other platforms, you
-must at least provide a path that will allow other platforms to continue
-working.
-
-
-Recommendations for gerrit activity:
-------------------------------------
-These guidelines are less strict than the ones listed above. These are more
-of the “good idea” variety. You are requested to follow the below
-guidelines, but there will probably be no actual consequences if they’re
-not followed. That said, following the recommendations below will speed up
-review of your patches, and make the members of the community do less work.
-
-* Each patch should be kept to one logical change, which should be
-described in the title of the patch. Unrelated changes should be split out
-into separate patches. Fixing whitespace on a line you’re editing is
-reasonable. Fixing whitespace around the code you’re working on should be a
-separate ‘cleanup’ patch. Larger patches that touch several areas are fine,
-so long as they are one logical change. Adding new chips and doing code
-cleanup over wide areas are two examples of this.
-
-* Test your patches before submitting them to gerrit. It's also appreciated
-if you add a line to the commit message describing how the patch was
-tested. This prevents people from having to ask whether and how the patch
-was tested. Examples of this sort of comment would be ‘TEST=Built
-platform’ or ‘Tested by building and booting platform’. Stating that the
-patch was not tested is also fine, although you might be asked to do some
-testing in cases where that would be reasonable.
-
-* Take advantage of the lint tools to make sure your patches don’t contain
-trivial mistakes. By running ‘make gitconfig’, the lint-stable tools are
-automatically put in place and will test your patches before they are
-committed. As a violation of these tools will cause the jenkins build test
-to fail, it’s to your advantage to test this before pushing to gerrit.
-
-* Don't submit patch trains longer than around 20 patches unless you
-understand how to manage long patch trains. Long patch trains can become
-difficult to handle and tie up the build servers for long periods of time
-if not managed well. Rebasing a patch train over and over as you fix
-earlier patches in the train can hide comments, and make people review the
-code multiple times to see if anything has changed between revisions. When
-pushing long patch trains, it is recommended to only push the full patch
-train once - the initial time, and only to rebase three or four patches at
-a time.
-
-* Run 'make what-jenkins-does' locally on patch trains before submitting.
-This helps verify that the patch train won’t tie up the jenkins builders
-for no reason if there are failing patches in the train. For running
-parallel builds, you can specify the number of cores to use by setting the
-the CPUS environment variable. Example:
- make what-jenkins-does CPUS=8
-
-* Use a topic when pushing a train of patches. This groups the commits
-together so people can easily see the connection at the top level of
-gerrit. Topics can be set for individual patches in gerrit by going into
-the patch and clicking on the icon next to the topic line. Topics can also
-be set when you push the patches into gerrit. For example, to push a set of
-commits with the the i915-kernel-x60 set, use the command:
- git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master/i915-kernel-x60
-
-* If one of your patches isn't ready to be merged, make sure it's obvious
-that you don't feel it's ready for merge yet. The preferred way to show
-this is by marking in the commit message that it’s not ready until X. The
-commit message can be updated easily when it’s ready to be pushed.
-Examples of this are "WIP: title" or "[NEEDS_TEST]: title". Another way to
-mark the patch as not ready would be to give it a -1 or -2 review, but
-isn't as obvious as the commit message. These patches can also be pushed as
-drafts as shown in the next guideline.
-
-* When pushing patches that are not for submission, these should be marked
-as such. This can be done in the title ‘[DONOTSUBMIT]’, or can be pushed as
-draft commits, so that only explicitly added reviewers will see them. These
-sorts of patches are frequently posted as ideas or RFCs for the community
-to look at. To push a draft, use the command:
- git push origin HEAD:refs/drafts/master
-
-* Respond to anyone who has taken the time to review your patches, even if
-it's just to say that you disagree. While it may seem annoying to address a
-request to fix spelling or 'trivial' issues, it’s generally easy to handle
-in gerrit’s built-in editor. If you do use the built-in editor, remember to
-get that change to your local copy before re-pushing. It's also acceptable
-to add fixes for these sorts of comments to another patch, but it's
-recommended that that patch be pushed to gerrit before the initial patch
-gets submitted.
-
-* Consider breaking up large individual patches into smaller patches
-grouped by areas. This makes the patches easier to review, but increases
-the number of patches. The way you want to handle this is a personal
-decision, as long as each patch is still one logical change.
-
-* If you have an interest in a particular area or mainboard, set yourself
-up as a ‘maintainer’ of that area by adding yourself to the MAINTAINERS
-file in the coreboot root directory. Eventually, this should automatically
-add you as a reviewer when an area that you’re listed as a maintainer is
-changed.
-
-* Submit mainboards that you’re working on to the board-status repo. This
-helps others and shows that these mainboards are currently being
-maintained. At some point, boards that are not up to date in the
-board-status repo will probably end up getting removed from the coreboot
-master branch.
-
-* Abandon patches that are no longer useful, or that you don’t intend to
-keep working on to get submitted.
-
-* Bring attention to patches that you would like reviewed. Add reviewers,
-ask for reviewers on IRC or even just rebase it against the current
-codebase to bring it to the top of the gerrit list. If you’re not sure who
-would be a good reviewer, look in the MAINTAINERS file or git history of
-the files that you’ve changed, and add those people.
-
-* Familiarize yourself with the coreboot [commit message
-guidelines](https://www.coreboot.org/Git#Commit_messages), before pushing
-patches. This will help to keep annoying requests to fix your commit
-message to a minimum.
-
-* If there have been comments or discussion on a patch, verify that the
-comments have been addressed before giving a +2. If you feel that a comment
-is invalid, please respond to that comment instead of just ignoring it.
-
-* Be conscientious when reviewing patches. As a reviewer who approves (+2)
-a patch, you are responsible for the patch and the effect it has on the
-codebase. In the event that the patch breaks things, you are expected to
-be actively involved in the cleanup effort. This means you shouldn’t +2 a
-patch just because you trust the author of a patch - Make sure you
-understand what the implications of a patch might be, or leave the review
-to others. Partial reviews, reviewing code style, for example, can be given
-a +1 instead of a +2. This also applies if you think the patch looks good,
-but may not have the experience to know if there may be unintended
-consequences.
-
-* If there is still ongoing discussion to a patch, try to wait for a
-conclusion to the discussion before submitting it to the tree. If you feel
-that someone is just bikeshedding, maybe just state that and give a time
-that the patch will be submitted if no new objections are raised.
-
-* When working with patch trains, for minor requests it’s acceptable to
-create a fix addressing a comment in another patch at the end of the patch
-train. This minimizes rebases of the patch train while still addressing the
-request. For major problems where the change doesn’t work as intended or
-breaks other platforms, the change really needs to go into the original
-patch.
-
-* When bringing in a patch from another git repo, update the original
-git/gerrit tags by prepending the lines with 'Original-'. Marking
-the original text this way makes it much easier to tell what changes
-happened in which repository. This applies to these lines, not the actual
-commit message itself:
- Commit-Id:
- Change-Id:
- Signed-off-by:
- Reviewed-on:
- Tested-by:
- Reviewed-by:
-The script 'util/gitconfig/rebase.sh' can be used to help automate this.
-Other tags such as 'Commit-Queue' can simply be removed.
-
-
-Expectations contributors should have:
---------------------------------------
-* Don't expect that people will review your patch unless you ask them to.
-Adding other people as reviewers is the easiest way. Asking for reviews for
-individual patches in the IRC channel, or by sending a direct request to an
-individual through your favorite messenger is usually the best way to get a
-patch reviewed quickly.
-
-* Don't expect that your patch will be submitted immediately after getting
-a +2. As stated previously, non-trivial patches should wait at least 24
-hours before being submitted. That said, if you feel that your patch or
-series of patches has been sitting longer than needed, you can ask for it
-to be submitted on IRC, or comment that it's ready for submission in the
-patch. This will move it to the top of the list where it's more likely to
-be noticed and acted upon.
-
-* Reviews are about the code. It's easy to take it personally when someone
-is criticising your code, but the whole idea is to get better code into our
-codebase. Again, this also applies in the other direction: review code,
-criticize code, but don’t make it personal.
-
-
-Requests for clarification and suggestions for updates to these guidelines
-should be sent to the coreboot mailing list at <coreboot@coreboot.org>.