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On 10/6/15 1:53 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2015-10-06 23:36:53 +0900:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Not so long ago, Erno started a thread[0] in this list to discuss the
>> abandon policies for patches that haven't been updated in Glance.
>>
>> I'd like to go forward and start following that policy with some
>> changes that you can find below:
>>
>> 1) Lets do this on patches that haven't had any activity in the last 2
>> months. This adds one more month to Erno's proposal. The reason being
>> that during the lat cycle, there were some ups and downs in the review
>> flow that caused some patches to get stuck.
>>
>> 2) Do this just on master, for all patches regardless they fix a
>> bug or implement a spec and for all patches regardless their review
>> status.
>>
>> 3) The patch will be first marked as a WIP and then abandoned if the
>> patch is not updated in 1 week. This will put this patches at the
>> begining of the queue but using the Glance review dashboard should
>> help keeing focus.
>>
>> Unless there are some critical things missing in the above or strong
>> opiniones against this, I'll make this effective starting next Monday
>> October 12th.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Flavio
>>
>> [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-February/056829.html
>>
> In the past we've had discussions on the list about how abandoning
> patches can be perceived as hostile to contributors, and that using
> a review dashboard with good filters is a better solution. Since
> you already have a dashboard, I suggest adding a section for patches
> that are old but have no review comments (maybe you already have
> that) and another for patches where the current viewer has voted
> -1. The first highlights the patches for reviewers, and ignores
> them when they are in a state where we're waiting for feedback or
> an update, and the latter provides a list of patches the current
> reviewer is involved in and may need to recheck for new comments.

That hostility aspect is the main reason why abandoning has been avoided
until now.

> Doug
>
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Thanks,
Nikhil