[openstack-dev] How to improve the specs review process (was Re: [Neutron] Group Based Policy and the way forward)
Baohua Yang
yangbaohua at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 02:11:45 UTC 2014
+1.
And the review process should be more efficient!
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
wrote:
> On 08/06/2014 11:19 AM, Edgar Magana wrote:
> > That is the beauty of the open source projects, there is always a
> smartest
> > reviewer catching out the facts that you don¹t.
>
> And yet, the specification clearly talks about 'endpoints' and nobody
> caught it where it supposed to be caught so I fear that something failed
> badly here:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/89469/10
>
> What failed and how we make sure this doesn't happen again? This to me
> is the most important question to answer. If I remember correctly we
> introduced the concept of Specs exactly to discuss on the ideas *before*
> the implementation starts. We wanted things like architecture, naming
> conventions and other important decisions to be socialized and agreed
> upon *before* code was proposed. We wanted to avoid developers to spend
> time implementing features in ways that are incompatible and likely to
> be rejected at code review time. And yet, here we are.
>
> Something failed and I would ask for all core reviewers to sit down and
> do an exercise to identify the root cause. If you want we can start from
> this specific case, do some simple root cause analysis together and take
> GBP as an example. Thoughts?
>
> /stef
>
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Best wishes!
Baohua
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