[openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoned old code reviews

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Fri May 27 10:46:32 UTC 2016


I've always done it manually by eyeballing the review, but the script is
tempting.

Thanks,
Michael
On 27 May 2016 8:42 PM, "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 05/27/2016 05:36 AM, Michael Still wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've spent some time today abandoning old reviews from the Nova queue.
> > Specifically, anything which hadn't been updated before February this
> > year has been abandoned with a message like this:
> >
> > "This patch has been idle for a long time, so I am abandoning it to keep
> > the review clean sane. If you're interested in still working on this
> > patch, then please unabandon it and upload a new patchset."
> >
> > Why do this? Abandoning the reviews means that Nova reviewers can focus
> > on things where the author is still actively working on the code.
> > Additionally, it makes it clearer which bugs are currently being worked.
> >
> > Additionally, unabandoning a review is a fairly cheap operation, so
> > please let me know if I need to do that anywhere.
> >
> > We should probably abandon more patches than those before February, but
> > I got bored at this point. I'll probably abandon more later.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Michael
>
> We have a script in tree that can be run by any core team member -
>
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/c69afd454b41e2e8fc3496ff56b986342f547064/tools/abandon_old_reviews.sh#L2
>
>
> It tries to describe the policy, which is basically things with no
> activity in the last 4 weeks, and has a -2 or a Jenkins -1 on it.
>
> The biggest issue here is the procedural -2s that don't tend to lift
> right away after release (which is probably a mistake, we should only
> really use procedural -2s during freeze windows). Feel free to modify
> accordingly.
>
>         -Sean
>
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> Sean Dague
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