[openstack-dev] [nova][all] Old review expiration

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jul 14 16:05:32 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:01:17AM -0500, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 12:46 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
> > > Given that we have so many old reviews hanging around on nova (and
> > > probably other projects), should we consider setting something like that
> > > back up?  With nova, at least, the vast majority of them can't possibly
> > > merge because they're so old, so we need to at least have something to
> > > remind the developer that they need to rebase…and if they've forgotten
> > > the review or don't care about it anymore, we should either have it
> > > taken over or get the review abandoned.
> > 
> > I didn't like the impersonal nature of the auto-expire thing, frankly. I 
> > prefer the current situation where deliberate action is needed, even if 
> > that means a little more work for the core review team.
> 
> Hmmm…I can see that, but it seems like there's very little deliberate
> action going on here :)  It's possible that reviewers are just not aware
> yet that auto-expire doesn't exist anymore and deliberate action is
> necessary…

Indeed, I don't recall anyone telling Nova cores developers that we
should be manually "expiring" patches, so I've not tried to expire
any myself.

Regards,
Daniel
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