After a bit of tweaking and improvements following feedback from
various people the new changes to Jenkins and
Gerrit
are now live. The changes will also be rolled out onto Stackforge
in the next 24 hours.
I've had a lot of great feedback in the few hours the changes
have been live, many love it and some have suggestions for
improvements. This is great, we know the look could use a bit of
refining here and there. What makes this truly awesome is that
the styles are kept in an OpenStack project with which anyone can
file bugs or send patches up to Gerrit.
To modify the styles simply grab the openstack-ci-puppet repo and look in the Gerrit
and Jenkins modules for the files. If you wish to file a bug,
please do so in the …
I've seen recent attempts at blog posts to show how to get
started at hacking on an OpenStack project. Unfortunately
they seem to have over-complicated the issue for new users.
As part of the Core Infrastructure team it is my job to make
submitting, reviewing and merging code easier for
developers. This includes documenting that process, so here
goes :)
- You need a Launchpad account and need to be joined to the Openstack team. You can also join the team of one of the many subprojects if you want to. Make sure Launchpad has your SSH key, Gerrit (the code review system) uses this.
- Sign the CLA as outlined in section 3 of the How To Contribute wiki page …
Gerrit is a fantastic tool for performing code reviews and
automating many of the tasks which can become quite complex.
Unfortunately its default style is not the most attractive thing
to look at all day. Yesterday I was tasked with skinning Gerrit
to make it more in-line with Openstack. This was not as easy a
task as I first anticipated, mostly down to not having the
ability to edit the HTML layout very much without editing
Gerrit's source.
The result isn't perfect but hopefully a notable improvement
which will be coming to an Openstack review site near you
soon. Here is the before and after shots:
