Re: Feature branch request

> On 10 Jun 2016, at 15:51, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:27:00PM +0200, jan iversen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > On 10 Jun 2016, at 14:39, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:20:45PM +0530, Akash Jain wrote:
> > > > Therefore I request a feature branch with commit access so I can push
> > > > code faster then the current work flow will allow.
> > >
> > > Can you we get a Akash commit access to push his work on a branch, he
> > > has sent several patches to gerrit already and I think he can be trusted
> > > with commit access (though in general I’d prefer if there was an
> > > alternative to push his work before it is ready to be merged, but there
> > > does not seem to be any).
> >
> > How about using gerrit, it is designed for that purpose.
>
> Gerrit does not handle multiple commits quite well, and the code is
> still evolving so it will just make everything needlessly complex
> (rebasing, squashing commits etc.).

Well, you have rebasing and squashing on a branch as well. Using git commit --amend works very well 
for mutiple commits (and one merge), actually that saves the --squash.

We have a slot in the weekly ESC meeting where new committers are suggested, discussed and normally 
approved.

rgds
jan i

> Regards,
> Khaled
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