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All good points but I want to add an observation.

IRC seems to be the generic answer to all problems and, personally, I don't think that's a good medium.  Having to depend upon who just might be on IRC at a particular moment seems rather hit or miss.  I much prefer something like email where I have a little more time to compose my thoughts, you don't have to be right there constantly and there's an easy history.

Note, that's just personal preference, given that IRC is the preferred medium for many things I'll just have to change my processes.

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Garbutt [mailto:john at johngarbutt.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Is the BP approval process broken?

Going a bit further up the thread where we are still talking about spec reviews and not code reviews...

On 28 August 2014 21:42, Dugger, Donald D <donald.d.dugger at intel.com> wrote:
> I would contend that that right there is an indication that there's a problem with the process.

We got two nova-core reviewer sponsors, to ensure the code would get reviewed before FF.

We probably should have got two nova-driver sponsors for a spec freeze. The cores don't have +2 in spec land.

This is the first release we are doing specs, so there are likely to be holes in the process. I think next time we could try two nova-cores and two nova-drivers (the driver might sign up for the spec review, but not the code review).

Also, the spec only got an exception for one week only. I was very late on adding the -2, apologies. I just spotted it was missed out, when doing a bit of house keeping for juno-3.

> You submit a BP and then you have no idea of what is happening and no way of addressing any issues.  If the priority is wrong I can explain why I think the priority should be higher, getting stonewalled leaves me with no idea what's wrong and no way to address any problems.

Feel free to raise this in the nova-meeting, or ping me or mikal on IRC or via email.

> I think, in general, almost everyone is more than willing to adjust proposals based upon feedback.  Tell me what you think is wrong and I'll either explain why the proposal is correct or I'll change it to address the concerns.

Right. In this case, we just didn't get it reviewed. As mentioned, probably because people didn't see this as important right now.

> Trying to deal with silence is really hard and really frustrating.  Especially given that we're not supposed to spam the mailing it's really hard to know what to do.

For blueprint process stuff, email or catch me (johnthetubaguy) on IRC, or mikal on IRC, or any of the nova-drivers. We can usually get you an answer. Or generally ask people in #openstack-nova who should be able to point you in the right direction.

>I don't know the solution but we need to do something.  More core team members would help, maybe something like an automatic timeout where BPs/patches with no negative scores and no activity for a week get flagged for special handling.

We are brainstorming ideas for Kilo. But its always a balance. I don't want to add extra red tape for every issue we have.

Right now we rely on people shouting on IRC if we forget really important things, and fixing stuff up as required.

Thanks,
John

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