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Please see the new Developer's Guide here: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
 
 
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'''Note'''
 
 
 
This workflow for developers is a work in progress and is not ready
 
for use by OpenStack projects.  Please see [[LifeWithBzrAndLaunchpad]]
 
for current project practices.
 
 
 
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= Gerrit, Jenkins, and [[GitHub]] Workflow =
 
 
 
[https://github.com/ GitHub] is a resource for managing Git
 
code repositories and interacting with other developers.
 
[http://jenkins-ci.org/ Jenkins] is used to continuously test all of
 
the components of [[OpenStack]] to ensure functionality and to verify that
 
each change to the code base works as intended.
 
[http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ Gerrit] is a code review system
 
originally developed for use by the Android Open Source Project and
 
allows us to build a workflow where every change is peer-reviewed and
 
tested by Jenkins before being merged into the main repository.
 
 
 
After making a change in their local Git repository, developers can
 
easily push that change to Gerrit as a proposed change for the
 
project.  Jenkins will automatically run functional tests on the code
 
and provide feedback on the change in Gerrit.  Any [[OpenStack]] developer
 
can provide feedback (in the form of a comment, or even line-by-line
 
annotations) using Gerrit, and the core developers of the project can
 
indicate whether they approve of the patch as is, or would like to see
 
changes before it is integrated.  Once patches are merged by Gerrit,
 
the repository is pushed to the canonical public repository on [[GitHub]].
 
 
 
== Using Gerrit ==
 
 
 
The next sections will describe what steps a developer should take to
 
use Gerrit as part of this workflow.
 
 
 
=== Register for an Account with Gerrit ===
 
 
 
Visit https://review.openstack.org/ and click the '''Register''' link
 
at the top-right corner of the page.  Log in with your Launchpad ID,
 
which looks like:
 
 
 
  https://launchpad.net/~USERNAME
 
 
 
Where ''USERNAME'' is your Launchpad username.  Because Gerrit uses
 
OpenID, you won't need a separate password for Gerrit.  As part of the
 
registration process, you will need to upload your SSH public key.
 
You may have already done this when registering with Launchpad, if so you
 
may use the same key.  See
 
[https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/user-upload.html#_ssh the Gerrit manual] for more
 
information.
 
 
 
When Gerrit asks you to choose a username, choose the same one you use
 
on Launchpad.
 
 
 
 
 
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'''Note'''
 
 
 
The OpenStack Gerrit site currently uses a self-signed SSL
 
certificate; this will be replaced with a certificate from a
 
recognized CA soon.  Additionally, we hope to automatically sync
 
Gerrit accounts, groups, and SSH keys from Launchpad in the near
 
future so developers will be able to skip this step.
 
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=== Cloning a Git Repository ===
 
 
 
Clone a copy of the repository for the [[OpenStack]] project you want to
 
work on from [[GitHub]] using a command similar to the following:
 
 
 
 
 
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git clone git://github.com/openstack/PROJECT.git
 
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Or if you have a [[GitHub]] account, via SSH:
 
 
 
 
 
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git clone git@github.com:openstack/PROJECT.git
 
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Where ''PROJECT'' is the name of the project you want to work on.  The
 
correct path to use can also be found on the project's page on [[GitHub]].
 
 
 
=== Setting up Git for Use with Gerrit ===
 
 
 
For a more comprehensive look at using Gerrit, see
 
[https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/user-upload.html the Gerrit manual].
 
 
 
==== Change-Id Hook ====
 
 
 
Gerrit adds a '''Change-Id''' header to commits so that it can link
 
Git commits to changes stored in its database.  It will add it
 
automatically if not present, but frequent Gerrit users may want to
 
have the header added locally before being uploaded to Gerrit.  In
 
particular, this will make updating patches for existing changes
 
easier.  To cause the Change-Id header to be added automatically to
 
each commit message, run this command inside your repository:
 
 
 
 
 
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scp -p -P 29418 USERNAME@review.openstack.org:hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/
 
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Where ''USERNAME'' is the username you registered with Gerrit.
 
 
 
==== Git Remote ====
 
 
 
To make pushing proposed changes to Gerrit easier, you may register
 
Gerrit as a remote repository tracked by Git.  Run the following
 
command inside your local Git repository:
 
 
 
 
 
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git remote add gerrit ssh://USERNAME@gerrit.openstack.org:29418/openstack/PROJECT.git
 
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Where ''USERNAME'' is the username you registered with Gerrit and
 
''PROJECT'' is the name of the current project.  Then when you are
 
ready to push a change to Gerrit for review, you may issue a command
 
like:
 
 
 
 
 
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git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master
 
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==== Git SSH Commands ====
 
 
 
If you find you are frequently executing Gerrit commands via SSH, you
 
may wish to add something like the following to your
 
'''~/.ssh/config''' file:
 
 
 
 
 
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Host review
 
  Hostname review.openstack.org
 
  Port 29418
 
  User USERNAME
 
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Which may shorten an SSH command to something like:
 
 
 
 
 
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ssh review gerrit ls-projects
 
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=== Reviewing a Change ===
 
 
 
Log in to https://review.openstack.org/ to see proposed changes, and
 
review them.  Any Openstack developer may propose or comment on a
 
change (including voting on it).  Members of the core project team may
 
mark changes as approved (by voting +2), and once a change has at
 
least one +2 vote, no -2 votes, and Jenkins has tested the change and
 
verified it, the change can be submitted by a member of the core
 
developer group to be merged into the repository.
 
 
 
= Resources =
 
 
 
See the [https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/index.html Gerrit documentation],
 
especially the User Guide, for more
 
information on how to use Gerrit.  It is also available within Gerrit
 
by clicking on the '''Documentation''' link on the top of the page.
 
 
 
The Mahara Project also
 
[https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Developer_Tools uses Git, Gerit, and Jenkins]
 
in a similar manner (though with Gitorious instead of [[GitHub]]).
 

Latest revision as of 05:40, 5 December 2017

Please see the new Developer's Guide here: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html