Bug 26692 – prepare-ChangeLog should bail out when missing EMAIL_ADDRESS or REAL_NAME

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

prepare-ChangeLog should bail out when missing EMAIL_ADDRESS or REAL_NAME

Right now it just dumps instructions into the template.  This causes people to post bad ChangeLogs and waste reviewer time.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

prepare-ChangeLog should take --name= and --email= arguments if it doesn't already.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Created attachment 32141 [details]
First attempt

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

The windows code path might still need some tweaking from one of the windows folks.  But this should at least get rid of one more source of needless reviewer timewaste (telling people to fix the names in their ChangeLogs). :)

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

I'm not sure that adding --email= and --name= is actually worth it.  I am happy to remove them if the reviewer agrees.  It's very easy to do:
REAL_NAME="Eric Seidel" prepare-ChangeLog

or just as easy as:
prepare-ChangeLog --name="Eric Seidel"

I think we should be encouraging people to use the environment variables.  I initially added --name and --email because I wanted to leave flexibility if I was making prepare-ChangeLog fail more strictly.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Created attachment 32144 [details]
Now with more sanity checking

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

Comment on attachment 32144 [details]
Now with more sanity checking

> @@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ sub normalizePath($);
>  # Project time zone for Cupertino, CA, US
>  my $changeLogTimeZone = "PST8PDT";
>  
> +my $name;
> +my $email_address;
>  my $gitCommit = 0;
>  my $gitIndex = "";

You've been infected (cleansed?) by Python. Please use interCaps for variable names.

r=me

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

The script uses mixed variable naming styles.  email_address is historical... but I've changed it to emailAddress now.  Thanks for the review!

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Committing to http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk ...
	M	WebKitTools/ChangeLog
	M	WebKitTools/Scripts/prepare-ChangeLog
Committed r45455
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/45455