Gitlab experiment wrapup

[Huw Davies]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 04:06:03PM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Huw Davies <huw at codeweavers.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:01:23PM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >> Another option would be to require the submitter to explicitly approve
> >> their own MR if it contains a patch written by someone else; that would
> >> be similar to a reviewer pushing fixups and then approving the MR.  It
> >> would require some mechanism to detect missing approvals though, so it
> >> may not be worth the trouble.
> >
> > Could the (yet to be written) auto-add-reviewer script check whether
> > the submitter and author are different and in that case auto add the
> > submitter as a reviewer (as well as any other appropriate reviewers)?
> > Then the approval check just becomes the same as for regular
> > reviewers.
> 
> Yes, that would be a way of doing it, if we decide that we want that
> info in the git notes. Do you feel that it would be useful to have it
> there?

If you're sending in someone else's work then you're essentially
acting as a reviewer, so it seems logical to add an Approved-by tag in
the notes.  Of course I'm not the one writing the bot, so if it's a
pain then perhaps it's not worth the hassle as this doesn't happen
that often.

Huw.