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On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:57:57 -0700
Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Overall I do think we need to re-think how the review burden is
> distributed. That being said, this is a nice proposal but I am not
> sure if it moves the review burden around enough or is the right
> approach. Do you have any rough numbers on what percent of the review
> burden goes to virt drivers today (how ever you want to define that
> statement, number of merged patches, man hours, lines of code, number
> of reviews  etc.). If for example today the nova review team spends
> 10% of there review time on virt drivers then I don't think this
> proposal will have a significant impact on the review backlog (for
> nova-common).

Even if it doesn't have a huge impact on the review backlog for
nova-common (I think it should at least help a bit) it does have the
potential to make life much easier for the virt driver developers. 

I think my main concern is around testing - as soon as we have multiple
repositories involved I think debugging of test failures
(especially races) tends to get more complicated and we have fewer
people who are familiar enough with the two code bases. 

Chris