Help/dev: mention how the robot performs its checks

Fixes: #16264.
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Ben Boeckel 2017-03-21 13:07:42 -04:00
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@ -65,9 +65,14 @@ The "Kitware Robot" (``@kwrobot``) automatically performs basic checks on
the commits proposed in a MR. If all is well the robot silently reports
a successful "build" status to GitLab. Otherwise the robot posts a comment
with its diagnostics. **A topic may not be merged until the automatic
review succeeds.** The MR submitter is expected to address the robot's
comments by *rewriting* the commits named by the robot's diagnostics
(e.g. via ``git rebase -i``).
review succeeds.**
Note that the MR submitter is expected to address the robot's comments by
*rewriting* the commits named by the robot's diagnostics (e.g., via
``git rebase -i``). This is because the robot checks each commit individually,
not the topic as a whole. This is done in order to ensure that commits in the
middle of a topic do not, for example, add a giant file which is then later
removed in the topic.
The automatic check is repeated whenever the topic branch is updated.
One may explicitly request a re-check by adding a comment with the