[openstack-dev] [Nova] What's holding nova development back?

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Mon Sep 15 21:30:26 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 05:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
>>> Just an observation from the last week or so...
>>>
>>> The biggest problem nova faces at the moment isn't code review latency. Our
>>> biggest problem is failing to fix our bugs so that the gate is reliable.
>>> The number of rechecks we've done in the last week to try and land code is
>>> truly startling.
>>
>> I consider both problems to be pretty much equally as important. I don't
>> think solving review latency or test reliabilty in isolation is enough to
>> save Nova. We need to tackle both problems as a priority. I tried to avoid
>> getting into my concerns about testing in my mail on review team bottlenecks
>> since I think we should address the problems independantly / in parallel.
>
> Agreed with this.  I don't think we can afford to ignore either one of them.

Yes, that was my point. I don't mind us debating how to rearrange
hypervisor drivers. However, if we think that will solve all our
problems we are confused.

So, how do we get people to start taking bugs / gate failures more seriously?

Michael

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