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[Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> One new addition in 2.3 is "draft changes".  The idea behind a draft
>> change in Gerrit is that it is a change that is not ready for merging,
>> or even general code review, but you would like to share it with some
>> people to get early comments.  If you upload a change as a draft, by
>> default, no one else can see it.  You must explicitly add each person
>> you would like to share it with as a reviewer.  Reviewers you add can
>> leave comments, but can not vote at this stage.  You can continue to
>> upload new patchsets to the change as it evolves, and once it is ready
>> for general review, you can click the "Publish" button.  It will then
>> become a normal change in Gerrit that everyone can see, including the
>> earlier reviews from the draft stage.  This is a one way transition;
>> once a draft is published, it can't be made a draft again.
> 
> This sounds cool. Will the vulnerability management team use this for
> embargoed security fixes?

I'll definitely look into that possibility... Depends a bit on the
security model around drafts (not being listed is not the same as being
private).

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack