[openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

Tim Bell Tim.Bell at cern.ch
Thu Jan 2 21:00:24 UTC 2014


Is there a mechanism to tag changes as being potentially more appropriate for the more ops related profiles ? I'm thinking more when someone proposes a change they suspect could have an operations impact, they could highlight this as being one for particular focus.

How about an OpsImpact tag ?

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net]
> Sent: 02 January 2014 21:47
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> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility
> 
> On 3 January 2014 00:53, Day, Phil <philip.day at hp.com> wrote:
> > Hi Thierry,
> >
> > Thanks for a great summary.
> >
> > I don't really share your view that there is a "us vs them" attitude
> > emerging between operators and developers (but as someone with a foot
> > in  both camps maybe I'm just thinking that because otherwise I'd
> > become even more bi-polar :-)
> >
> > I would suggest though that the criteria for core reviewers is maybe more slanted towards developers that operators, and that it would
> be worth considering if there is some way to recognised and incorporate the different perspective that operators can provide into the
> review process.
> 
> Perhaps they can start doing reviews?
> 
> One could argue that a specific venue is needed for them to review effectively, as looking at each individual commit being proposed
> might not be efficient for folk looking at conceptual review - but thats at best a hypothesis. If ops focused folk spent an hour a day
> reviewing upcoming changes I'm fairly certain they would both be listened to and eventually earn core wings.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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