[openstack-dev] [nova] FFE for entrypoints driver loading

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 15:58:56 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 17:20 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Monty Taylor wrote:
> > On 08/21/2012 10:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:45 -0600, Monty Taylor wrote:
> >>> Hey all!
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to request a FFE for the following:
> >>>
> >>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11027/
> 
> So I looked a bit more deeply into this, and I'm not really convinced.
> 
> First, this comes out of nowhere with no blueprints / discussion, with
> first patch proposed even after Folsom-3 was pushed. This looks like the
> textbook example of what you should not do, diverting resources from
> bugfixing to do FFE assessment and reviews with no prior warning. The
> process is there for everyone, so I'd feel bad if we granted an
> exception to this while we refused exceptions for things that were
> proposed with proper blueprint tracking and before FF but which were
> just held back by slow reviews.

This is my take too. I started looking at this stuff in some detail this
morning and mulling it over but, after a while, I was like "wait, I
wanted to be doing bug triage today!".

One of the issues with FFEs is they become a distraction from what we
want everyone to be focused on at this point - bugs and release quality.

Cheers,
Mark/




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