RFR: 1079: Support ability to defer and delegate timing of an integration

Erik Joelsson erikj at openjdk.java.net
Mon Sep 20 20:12:36 UTC 2021


On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:00:04 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Here is my first stab at implementing a way for a PR author to defer integration to another committer. The usecase for this is if the timing of the integration is important, but the author may not be available to issue the /integrate command at the desired time. 
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> Here is how it works: There are two new arguments to the /integrate command "defer" and "undefer". If the author of a PR issues "/integrate defer", the PR enters the deferred state (which is marked by the label "deferred"). This enables any committer to issue "/integrate" to actually perform the integration. When a PR is integrated by someone other than the author, then that person gets attributed in the Git committer field, just like when a change is sponsored. The author can revert this ability at any time before integration happens by issuing "/integrate undefer".
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> This is similar to how sponsoring a change works, but not quite the same. When setting up for being sponsored, the /integrate command will run all the checks and record the specific hash that the author wishes to commit. I skipped this kind of rigorous book keeping here as I think it is more likely to get in the way in the desired usecase. The whole point is that timing is important and the author is not available, so better to leave things more open in my opinion.
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> I'm open to informed suggestions on how this could potentially be improved on a conceptual level.
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> When writing the test, I based it on the simpleMerge test already present. It took some work to properly understand what was happening in that test, and to make it clearer (at least to me), I have renamed and reorganized things a little bit. In these tests, the HostedRepository instances ("author", "integrator", "reviewer" etc) represent users and are used to create PR test instances (or views) which the test can use to interact with the PR as different users. To make this clearer, I introduced the botUser explicitly as that is also a user that sometimes issues commands and interacts with a PR, and used that for things that the bot is doing. I also changed some other users around so that they perform the role for which they are named (reviewer reviews, not the integrator).
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> When composing the messages that the bot will print back in comments, I noticed that "PR" and "pull request" were used interchangeably. I decided to standardize on "pull request".

I was considering maintaining a list of valid integrators, but in the end I felt like it just added complexity to solve a problem I doubt we would ever really have. I do believe we can trust committers within the OpenJDK to not go around and issue /integrate in other people's PRs.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/skara/pull/1221


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