Re: [egit-dev] iplog for jgit/egit

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How in the world does the foundation do this against CVS when the
> > CVS metadata does not have the non-committer atribution in the cvs
> > blame output? ??Do current IP logs just lie here and get it wrong?
> 
> There are two ways to do ip logs: manual and automated. I don't want
> to talk about the manual way because it's evil.
> 
> The automated way [1] is generally controlled via bugzilla patches and
> a bugzilla flag (iplog).
> 
> Since our plan is to use Gerrit, we need a way to dump information
> from Gerrit and do something similar as we do in bugzilla.

Yes.

Which means, the first time we do this, we have to use the manual
way, because we have to construct the software to pull the data
out of our data store.

So the first log is going to be evil.

And I'm saying I'm willing to take on the brunt of this evil effort,
I just have some questions.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.