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Learning Gerrit Code Review

By : Luca Milanesio
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Learning Gerrit Code Review

By: Luca Milanesio

Overview of this book

<p>Developing software is now more than ever before a globally distributed activity: agile methodologies that worked well enough with co-located teams now need to be empowered with additional tools such as Gerrit code review to allow the developers to share, discuss, and cooperate in a more social way, even with GitHub.</p> <p>Learning Gerrit Code Review is a practical guide that provides you with step-by-step instructions for the installation, configuration, and use of Gerrit code review. Using this book speeds up your adoption of Gerrit through the use of a unique, consolidated set of recipes ready to be used for LDAP authentication and to integrate Gerrit with Jenkins and GitHub.</p> <p>Learning Gerrit Code Review looks at the workflow benefits of code review in an agile development team, breaks it down into simple steps, and puts it into action without any hassle. It will guide you through the installation steps of Gerrit by showing you the most typical setup and configuration schemes used in private networks.</p> <p>You will also learn how to effectively use Gerrit with GitHub in order to provide the ability to add more consistent code review functionality to the social collaboration tools provided by the GitHub platform. Using the two tools together, you will be able to reuse your existing accounts and integrate your GitHub community into the development lifecycle while keeping in touch with external contributors.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Gerrit Code Review
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Appendix A. Using Gerrit with GitHub

GitHub is the world's largest platform for the free hosting of Git Projects, with over 4.5 million registered developers. Most of the readers of this book probably already have a GitHub account and while reading the previous chapters you may be thinking about how to effectively use Gerrit with your existing GitHub repositories.

We will now provide a step-by-step example of how to connect Gerrit to an external GitHub server so as to share the same set of repositories. Additionally, we will provide guidance on how to use the Gerrit Code Review workflow and GitHub concurrently.

By the end of this Appendix we will have our Gerrit installation fully integrated and ready to be used for both open source public projects and private projects on GitHub.