Gerrit +1 policy

[Patrick Venture]

+2!

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> I get frustrated by Gerrit removing +1s from patches when I make a
> small change to the commit message.
>
> This is a configurable option in Gerrit:
>
> https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-labels.html#label_copyAllScoresIfNoCodeChange
>
> I would like to propose we change this setting to true.
>
> The downside is someone could radically change the content of their
> commit message that you've +1'd. However the maintainer still gets a
> chance to pull someone up on this if they think someone has pulled a
> swift one.
>
> If there are some repositories that would like to maintain the status
> quo, this could be done at the top level, so that all repositories
> inherit the new default, but would allow for individual projects to
> override the setting if they desired.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel