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Re: Junior developers

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:24:36 -0500

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:19, dcz <dcz_at_phpbb-seo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for responding.
>
> I was hopping that someone did put something together to handle this.
> It looks like doable with a pre-commit hook that would have a look in a db
> (or a file) to find out if the user is JD or SD. For JDs, the commit could
> be made dry-run, and the script could in such case send a mail to SDs who
> could later reply to in order to do the actual commit (eg authorize it), or
> not.

Hook scripts do not work in this way. They are non-interactive and
especially in the case of the pre-commit, will block others from
committing while the hook is executing.

There is no "dry run" for a commit. It's conceivable that you could
check the user ID in the pre-commit, and if the committer is JD,
reject the commit while mailing a diff to SD which represents the
change being attempted. This would require a lot of overhead on the
server though.

Honestly, I think you're trying to apply an excessively technical
solution to a fundamentally non-technical idea.

> Unfortunately, I still have a lot of doc to read about svn and not so much
> time as us all.
> But since I saw it working, I keep faith ;-)
>
>
>
> Le 17/02/2010 14:30, Andy Levy a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:17, dcz<dcz_at_phpbb-seo.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Here is what I'm trying to do : some user (let's call them junior
>>> developer)
>>> should require their commit to be authorized by other (senior developer)
>>> before they would actually be committed.
>>>
>>> Since I saw this feature on an svn (though I do not administrate this
>>> one,
>>> so I can't tell how it is done, but it's svn for sure) and found it
>>> pretty
>>> useful, I was a bit surprised not to be able to find any topic about it
>>> after hours a googling.
>>>
>>> Would be very nice if someone could share thoughts about how to set such
>>> feature up.
>>>
>> Subversion has no such feature, which is why you can't find anything about
>> it.
>>
>> You can approach this a couple of ways. 2 that come to mind immediately:
>> 1) Junior developer (JD) submits patches to the senior developer (SD).
>> SD reviews the patch&  commits when he's satisfied.
>> 2) JD gets his own private branch&  can commit to it all day long.
>> When he's ready for a code review, SD looks it over&  merges JD's work
>> into trunk (or wherever your main development is done). This will
>> require that JD's branch be kept up to date with regular merges from
>> trunk so that he's not conflicting with other peoples' work.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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