[openstack-dev] [nova] stable branches & failure to handle review backlog

Gary Kotton gkotton at vmware.com
Wed Jul 30 19:17:35 UTC 2014



On 7/30/14, 8:22 PM, "Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 09:01 +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote:
>> As a stable-maint, I'm always hesitant to review patches I've no
>> understanding on, hence I end up just checking how big is the patch,
>> whether it adds/removes new configuration options etc but, the real
>> review has to be done by someone with good understanding of the change.
>> 
>> Something I've done in the past is adding the folks that had approved
>> the patch on master to the stable/maint review. They should know that
>> code already, which means it shouldn't take them long to review it. All
>> the sanity checks should've been done already.
>> 
>> With all that said, I'd be happy to give *-core approval permissions on
>> stable branches, but I still think we need a dedicated team that has a
>> final (or at least relevant) word on the patches.
>
>Maybe what we need to do is give *-core permission to +2 the patches,
>but only stable/maint team has *approval* permission.  Then, the cores
>can review the code, and stable/maint only has to verify applicability
>to the stable branchŠ

+1

>-- 
>Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>
>Rackspace
>
>
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