[openstack-dev] [nova] policy on old / virtually abandoned patches

Ken'ichi Ohmichi ken1ohmichi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 12:20:59 UTC 2014


2014-11-18 21:06 GMT+09:00 Sean Dague <sean at dague.net>:
> Nova currently has 197 patches that have seen no activity in the last 4
> weeks (project:openstack/nova age:4weeks status:open).
>
> Of these
>  * 108 are currently Jenkins -1 (project:openstack/nova age:4weeks
> status:open label:Verified<=-1,jenkins)
>  * 60 are -2 by a core team member (project:openstack/nova age:4weeks
> status:open label:Code-Review<=-2)
>
> (note, those 2 groups sometimes overlap)
>
> Regardless, the fact that Nova currently has 792 open reviews, and 1/4
> of them seem dead, seems like a cleanup thing we could do.
>
> I'd like to propose that we implement our own auto abandon mechanism
> based on reviews that are either held by a -2, or Jenkins -1 after 4
> weeks time. I can write a quick script to abandon with a friendly
> message about why we are doing it, and to restore it if work is continuing.

thanks Sean, +1 for doing this.

Thanks
Ken Ohmichi



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