On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:57:24AM -0400, Ayal Baron wrote:
I'd rather avoid gerrit hooks if possible to use a jenkins job to validate this to keep the gerrit deployment as simple to maintain/upgrade as possible.
But that's the wrong place to be doing it. Jenkins periodically polls for changes and then runs a job and posts the results somewhere (who would get the email?)
Here the committer would immediately know that there is a problem with the patch and reviewers also immediately know not to accept it.
I think what Itamar is getting at is that from gerrit you can trigger jenkins jobs which give a -1 if it fails. If jenkins checks for pep8 you've solved the feedback issue without creating custom a gerrit hook. It will also be more scalable since you can add pyflakes / pylint / ... in the same check.