Gerrit +1 policy

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Tue, 29 May 2018, at 22:23, Joel Stanley 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

Jumping on the bandwagon here: +1 from me!

Andrew