[openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

Christopher Yeoh cbkyeoh at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 05:53:17 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>
> Is there a mechanism to tag changes as being potentially more appropriate
> for the more ops related profiles ? I'm thinking more when someone proposes
> a change they suspect could have an operations impact, they could highlight
> this as being one for particular focus.
>
> How about an OpsImpact tag ?
>
>
Perhaps this would trigger a message to the mailing list on patch upload
rather than merge though so ops people have some
time to respond before it gets merged.



> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net]
> > Sent: 02 January 2014 21:47
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional
> changes that break backwards compatibility
> >
> > On 3 January 2014 00:53, Day, Phil <philip.day at hp.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Thierry,
> > >
> > > Thanks for a great summary.
> > >
> > > I don't really share your view that there is a "us vs them" attitude
> > > emerging between operators and developers (but as someone with a foot
> > > in  both camps maybe I'm just thinking that because otherwise I'd
> > > become even more bi-polar :-)
> > >
> > > I would suggest though that the criteria for core reviewers is maybe
> more slanted towards developers that operators, and that it would
> > be worth considering if there is some way to recognised and incorporate
> the different perspective that operators can provide into the
> > review process.
> >
> > Perhaps they can start doing reviews?
> >
> > One could argue that a specific venue is needed for them to review
> effectively, as looking at each individual commit being proposed
> > might not be efficient for folk looking at conceptual review - but thats
> at best a hypothesis. If ops focused folk spent an hour a day
> > reviewing upcoming changes I'm fairly certain they would both be
> listened to and eventually earn core wings.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > --
> > Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
> > Distinguished Technologist
> > HP Converged Cloud
> >
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