[openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking Kilo priorities

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Dec 4 20:37:23 UTC 2014


Cool -- I have added these to the agenda.

Michael

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Alessandro Pilotti
<apilotti at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>> On 25 Nov 2014, at 02:35, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Alessandro Pilotti
>> <apilotti at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>>> On 25 Nov 2014, at 01:57, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> First off, sorry for the slow reply. I was on vacation last week.
>>>>
>>>> The project priority list was produced as part of the design summit,
>>>> and reflects nova's need to pay down technical debt in order to keep
>>>> meeting our users needs. So, whilst driver changes are important, they
>>>> doesn't belong on that etherpad.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I think the best way to help us keep up with our code
>>>> review requirements is to be an active reviewer. I know we say this a
>>>> lot, but many cores optimize for patches which have already been
>>>> reviewed and +1'ed by a non-core. So... Code review even with a +1
>>>> makes a real difference to us being able to keep up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply, we actually do quite a lot of cross reviews, with the
>>> general rule being that every patch produced by one of the Hyper-V team members
>>> needs to be reviewed by at least another two.
>>>
>>> The main issue is that reviews get lost at every rebase and keeping track of
>>> this becomes not trivial when there are a lot of open patches under review,
>>> mostly interdependent. It's not easy to keep people motivated to do this, but
>>> we do our best!
>>
>> This is good news, and I will admit that I don't track the review
>> throughput of sub teams in nova.
>>
>> I feel like focusing on the start of each review chain is useful here.
>> If you have the first two reviews in a chain with a couple of +1s on
>> them already, then I think that's a reasonable set of reviews to bring
>> up at a nova meeting.
>
> For today’s Nova metting, I’d like to propose:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/129235/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/136484/
>
> If possible, one of the other patches waiting since a couple of months is:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/131734/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alessandro
>
>> I sometimes see a +2 or two on reviews now at
>> the beginning of a chain, and that's wasted effort.
>>
>> Michael
>>
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>> Rackspace Australia
>



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