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Hi,

I think both PTL candidates mentioned process improvements wrt
contributions and reviews in their candidacy announcements. As a new
Neutron dev I have seen that it is easy for reviews to go unnoticed,
especially when they are stand-alone bug fixes that aren't part of a
particular blueprint group (and so aren't discussed/highlighted at the
various sub-team meetings). Of course this is also compounded by a
seemingly heavy backlog of reviews. I realise that all core/non-core
devs are doing as much as they can and though more cores will help, it
takes a long time to develop people into this role.

I was wondering if a 'review hour' would help. This is something Lucas
Gomez told me about; the Ironic core team has a weekly hour slot in
which they discuss x number of reviews and approve or -1 them. Besides
getting reviews cleared quicker, it also opens the process up. It will
allow new contributors to (more quickly) learn about the kinds of things
core reviewers look for in a patch and also give real-time feedback
(e.g. could just use #openstack-neutron for discussion during the hour).
I feel that this could have an impact on the review backlog even if this
only tackling the oldest 5 reviews for example.

Do any of the core devs think this would be a good thing, and do you
think you have the time for it?

thanks, marios