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Hi,


just to wrap this up following discussion during this week's irc meeting
[1] (thanks for bringing it up Kyle)

I didn't hear any -1 to the general idea of having designated review
times (and quite a few +1). One point raised in the weekly meeting by
Maru Newby was that this may not be effective by itself and that we
should rather choose to assign reviews to core devs for their lifecycle.
This obviously also makes a lot of sense (and perhaps some combination
of the above two would be most effective) - in any case Maru said he'll
have more to say on this proposal at summit.

So I guess we draw a line under this for the moment. Thanks for your
responses and I'm very happy to see that the community is open to such
discussions/proposals from newcomers and that in general there is
agreement on trying to improve the review process,

thanks! marios

[1]
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/networking/2014/networking.2014-01-06-21.02.log.html


On 21/04/14 17:38, marios at redhat.com wrote:
> 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
> 
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