[openstack-dev] [nova] RFC - using Gerrit for Nova Blueprint review & approval

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Fri Mar 7 05:11:18 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> One of the issues that the Nova team has definitely hit is Blueprint
> overload. At some point there were over 150 blueprints. Many of them
> were a single sentence.
>
> The results of this have been that design review today is typically not
> happening on Blueprint approval, but is instead happening once the code
> shows up in the code review. So -1s and -2s on code review are a mix of
> design and code review. A big part of which is that design was never in
> any way sufficiently reviewed before the code started.
>
> In today's Nova meeting a new thought occurred. We already have Gerrit
> which is good for reviewing things. It gives you detailed commenting
> abilities, voting, and history. Instead of attempting (and usually
> failing) on doing blueprint review in launchpad (or launchpad + an
> etherpad, or launchpad + a wiki page) we could do something like follows:
>
> 1. create bad blueprint
>

or create a good one with a great template!


> 2. create gerrit review with detailed proposal on the blueprint
> 3. iterate in gerrit working towards blueprint approval
> 4. once approved copy back the approved text into the blueprint (which
> should now be sufficiently detailed)
>
> Basically blueprints would get design review, and we'd be pretty sure we
> liked the approach before the blueprint is approved. This would
> hopefully reduce the late design review in the code reviews that's
> happening a lot now.
>
> There are plenty of niggly details that would be need to be worked out
>
>  * what's the basic text / template format of the design to be reviewed
> (probably want a base template for folks to just keep things consistent).
>  * is this happening in the nova tree (somewhere in docs/ - NEP (Nova
> Enhancement Proposals), or is it happening in a separate gerrit tree.
>

I think this is really worthwhile to try -- and it might offer an
interesting, readable history of decisions made. Plus how funny it was also
brought up at the Ops Summit. Convergence, cool.

It also goes along with our hope to move API design docs into the repo.

Other projects up to try it? The only possible addition is that we might
need to work out is cross-project blueprints and which repo should those
live in? We're doing well on integration, be careful about siloing.

Anne


>  * are there timelines for blueprint approval in a cycle? after which
> point, we don't review any new items.
>
> Anyway, plenty of details to be sorted. However we should figure out if
> the big idea has support before we sort out the details on this one.
>
> Launchpad blueprints will still be used for tracking once things are
> approved, but this will give us a standard way to iterate on that
> content and get to agreement on approach.
>
>         -Sean
>
> --
> Sean Dague
> Samsung Research America
> sean at dague.net / sean.dague at samsung.com
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