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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:55:03AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 08/27/2013 10:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I tend to focus the bulk of my review activity on the libvirt driver,
> > since that's where most of my knowledge is. I've recently done some
> > reviews outside this area to help reduce our backlog, but I'm not
> > so comfortable approving stuff in many of the general infrastructure
> > shared areas since I've not done much work on those areas of code.
> > 
> > I think Nova is large enough that it (mostly) beyond the scope of any
> > one person to know all areas of Nova code well enough todo quality
> > reviews. IOW, as we grow the nova-core team further, it may be worth
> > adding more reviewers who have strong knowledge of specific areas &
> > can focus their review energy in those areas, even if their review
> > count will be low when put in the context of nova as a whole.
> 
> I'm certainly open to that.
> 
> Another way I try to do this unofficially is give certain +1s a whole
> lot of weight when I'm looking at a patch.  I do this regularly when
> looking over patches to hypervisor drivers I'm not very familiar with.
> 
> Another thing we could consider is take this approach more officially.
> Oslo has started doing this for its incubator.  A maintainer of a part
> of the code not on oslo-core has their +1 treated as a +2 on that code.
> 
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/oslo-incubator/tree/MAINTAINERS

Yes, just having a list of expert maintainers for each area of Nova
would certainly be helpful in identifying whose comments to place
more weight by, regardless of anything else we might do.

Daniel
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