Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

Dear Jan,


On 02/06/17 12:00, jan iversen wrote:

> > Sorry, I still don’t see where the additional step is?
>
> you submit the patch to gerrit, that does not put it into our core repo, but only to the gerrit 
> review repo. In order to merge the patch into our core repo(typically master) a committer, needs to 
> hit merge in gerrit, then will mark the patch as merged in gerrit, and commit it to the master repo.
>
> the committer that does the merge becomes the committer in git, the author in our core repo becomes:
>
> 1) gerrit author, if gerrit committer == committer who does the merge

Sorry, what is the “gerrit author”? Do you mean the owner?

> 2) else gerrit committer.

Do you have an example commit, where that happened? I think, then I 
would understand it better.

I still don’t understand, why the author metadata should be changed in 
the first place.


Kind regards,

Paul