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On 06/10/15 13:53 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2015-10-06 23:36:53 +0900:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Not so long ago, Erno started a thread[0] in this list to discuss the
>> abandon policies for patches that haven't been updated in Glance.
>>
>> I'd like to go forward and start following that policy with some
>> changes that you can find below:
>>
>> 1) Lets do this on patches that haven't had any activity in the last 2
>> months. This adds one more month to Erno's proposal. The reason being
>> that during the lat cycle, there were some ups and downs in the review
>> flow that caused some patches to get stuck.
>>
>> 2) Do this just on master, for all patches regardless they fix a
>> bug or implement a spec and for all patches regardless their review
>> status.
>>
>> 3) The patch will be first marked as a WIP and then abandoned if the
>> patch is not updated in 1 week. This will put this patches at the
>> begining of the queue but using the Glance review dashboard should
>> help keeing focus.
>>
>> Unless there are some critical things missing in the above or strong
>> opiniones against this, I'll make this effective starting next Monday
>> October 12th.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Flavio
>>
>> [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-February/056829.html
>>
>
>In the past we've had discussions on the list about how abandoning
>patches can be perceived as hostile to contributors, and that using
>a review dashboard with good filters is a better solution. Since
>you already have a dashboard, I suggest adding a section for patches
>that are old but have no review comments (maybe you already have
>that) and another for patches where the current viewer has voted
>-1. The first highlights the patches for reviewers, and ignores
>them when they are in a state where we're waiting for feedback or
>an update, and the latter provides a list of patches the current
>reviewer is involved in and may need to recheck for new comments.

We definitely don't want anyone to feel bad about this, especially
when it's our fault they patches are still hanging around. This is the
reason why the WIP phase is being proposed as away to ask the user to
come to use and remind us to do our job. Not ideal, sure, but it
happens to everyone.

The current dashboard has that section already and I really hope we
don't get to the point where abandoning patches ourselves is
necessary. The section is called "5 Days Without Feedback" and I gotta
be honest, it's worked (the dashboard in general) very well for me and
I hope for others as well.

There are patches from old contributors that we just know are never
going to be worked out. These patches I'd like to take a look closely
before abandoning them so that we can rebase them ourselves if they
are still relevant. Making this list shorter is what I'd like to
achieve with the proposed plan.

Hope the above makes sense,
Flavio

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@flaper87
Flavio Percoco
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