Working towards a common review format for git

Hi,

In a prior email I mentioned in passing a library I've been working on to try to reach a common format for storing review content in git: perl-notedb.[1]

I'm making reasonable progress with this but my work has uncovered necessary (and trivial) modifications to Notedb, the first[2] is a trivial modification to ensure the 'Status' trailer gets written to the commit when a change's status changes. The second[3] is an RFC where I suggest adding a 'Commit' trailer so that it is always possible to reference the commit under review by its sha.

With these patches applied to gerrit it's possible for perl-notedb to parse all meta content from notedb and map it to the actual git content under review. However, my concern at present is that I'm already operating under a fork of notedb which defeats the objective of collaborating to produce a standard format, let's try to avoid[4]

If the gerrit folks could let me know what I need to do to get these modifications merged, or else what we need to do to achieve equivalent functionality I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks again, Richard Ipsum

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/richardipsum/perl-notedb [2]: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/73436/ [3]: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/73602/ [4]: https://xkcd.com/927/