[jdt-dev] Bugzilla vs. Gerrit

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Team,

I wondered about a batch of gerrit changes recently created by Eric Milles, some 
of which gave no obvious reasons why a fix was needed in the first place. So on 
one gerrit I asked him "why?" and he responded:
  "Andrey Lusktov and Lars Vogel have repeatedly asked me to submit gerrit 
changes instead of opening bugs with proposed fixes/patches."

I haven't asked Andrey and Lars whether indeed they said "instead of", and I 
haven't asked him if they spoke about Platform specifically or all of Eclipse, 
but I think the JDT team should speak in one voice in such matters.

I personally prefer to use bugzilla first and work with gerrits only for working 
out the details towards an agreed-upon goal. And in fact I believe the option to 
use gerrit without bugzilla was intended only for trivial changes obviously not 
needing a discussion, wasn't it?

I would even vote to keep the gerrit-only approach only for committers and route 
all incoming JDT contributions through bugzilla.

Finally, I think it's important that every committer can easily see, whenever 
communication already happened between a committer and a contributor, to the end 
that we don't annoy contributors with contradictory requests.

What do others think?

best,
Stephan

PS: There's also the issue of separating real fixes from "style cleanup", but I 
think we already agree that both kinds of changes should never be mixed in a 
single contribution.