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John,

+2

I am guilty of falling behind on reviews. Pulled in to a lot of other stuff
since the summit ... and before.

Having prescribed time on my calendar is a good idea.  Just put it on my
calendar.

Jay
On Jun 12, 2014 10:49 PM, "John Griffith" <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
wrote:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> So I've been noticing some issues with regards to reviews in Cinder
> lately, namely we're not keeping up very well.  Most of this is a math
> problem (submitters >> reviewers).  We're up around 200+ patches in the
> queue, and a large number of them have no negative feedback but have just
> been waiting patiently (some > 2 months).
>
> Growth is good, new contributors are FANTASTIC... but stale submissions in
> the queue are BAD, and I hate for people interested in contributing to
> become discouraged and just go away (almost as much as I hate emails asking
> me to review patches).
>
> I'd like to propose we consider one or two review days a week for a while
> to try and work on our backlog.  I'd like to propose that on these days we
> make an attempt to NOT propose new code (or at least limit it to bug-fixes
> [real bugs, not features disguised as bugs]) and have an agreement from
> folks to focus on actually doing reviews and using IRC to collaborate
> together and knock some of these out.
>
> We did this sort of thing over a virtual meetup and it was really
> effective, I'd like to see if we can't do something for a brief duration
> over IRC.
>
> I'm thinking we give it a test run, set aside a few hours next Wed morning
> to start (coinciding with our Cinder weekly meeting since many folks around
> that morning across TZ's etc) where we all dedicate some time prior to the
> meeting to focus exclusively on helping each other get some reviews knocked
> out.  As a reminder Cinder weekly meeting is 16:00 UTC.
>
> Let me know what you all think, and keep in mind this is NOT limited to
> just current regular "Block-Heads" but anybody in the OpenStack community
> that's willing to help out and of course new reviewers are MORE than
> welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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