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On 12/05/2013 02:47 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 5 December 2013 12:34, Tim Schnell <tim.schnell at rackspace.com> wrote:
>> Hi Heaters,
> ...
>
> So, I'm very glad someone is going to work on this; I believe there
> may be use for it in Tuskar too.
>
>> Start Heater as a Stackforge project with a different core team that is
>> dedicated to actively working on Heater
> This would silo the folk working on the repository from those working
> on Heat. -1000 on that proposition.
>
>> Incubate Heater within the Orchestration umbrella using the existing Heat
>> Core team
>> Incubate Heater with the Orchestration umbrella, but create a sub-project
>> team responsible for reviewing and +2s
> This would reduce the siloing effect, but you'd still have siloed core
> reviewers.
>
>> The idea behind creating a separate core team either via Stackforge or an
>> Orchestration sub-project is so that the people actively working on Heater
>> can review and iterate more quickly through code revisions than dumping
>> Heater code through the already strained Heat review pipeline.
> So, I understand the motivation, but this is really really really
> really bad thinking.
>
> If Heat is suffering velocity problems due to not enough core reviewers do you:
>
> A) start a related project, which all the Heat core are going to have
> to be up to speed on at some point
>
> or
>
> B) add people onto Heat with the explicit goal of providing more
> review bandwidth until the problem is solved ?
>
> If you answer A, we need to talk.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Where there is a bottleneck - such as not enough reviewers -
> /anything/ we do that makes the bottleneck better makes everything
> better. Anything else we do has pretty much no effect, other than
> costing time and effort to do it, whatever it is.
>
Yes, point taken.

heat-core does a reasonable job of keeping up with review load, so there
is not yet a bottleneck. However the load is taken by a small team which
would definitely need to grow if we were to take on a new project.

There are certainly some reviewers who will be ready for nomination soon
if they continue increasing their review volume:
http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/heat-reviewers-30.txt

It may be appropriate to relax the core review approval to a single +2
on heatr in the early stages of the project.

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