[openstack-dev] [all][stackalytics] Gaming the Stackalytics stats

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Fri Apr 8 17:55:28 UTC 2016


On 04/08/2016 01:42 PM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> 2016-04-08 19:26 GMT+02:00 Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Team,
>>
>> Steve pointed out to a problem in Stackalytics:
>> https://twitter.com/stevebot/status/718185667709267969
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> There are many ways to game a simple +1 counter, such as +1'ing changes
> that already have at least 1x +2, or which already approved, or which need
> rechecking...
> 
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>>
>> It's pretty clear what's happening if you look here:
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:openstack-infra%2540lists.openstack.org+status:open
>>
>> Here's the drastic step (i'd like to avoid):
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/303545/
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
> 
> One more possible (though also imperfect) mitigation is to make exception
> from the usual 2x +2 rule for requirements updates passing gates and use
> only 1x +2. Then requirements reviews will take substantially less time to
> land, reducing need/possibility of having such +1's.

Proposal bot patches merge in many cases with 1 +2 already.

Have you looked at the timing of the bot patches generated and the first
+1's? If not, take a look at that.

I don't think we should be expecting core reviewers to schedule
approving bot proposals to prevent extraneous +1s.

Thanks,
Anita.

> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dims
>>
>> --
>> Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims
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