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Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2015-10-07 16:50:16 +0900:
> On 06/10/15 23:36 +0900, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I'd like to provide some extra data here. This is our current status:
> 
> ==============================================================
> Total patches without activity in the last 2 months: 73
> Total patches closing a bug: 30
> Total patches with negative review by core reviewers: 62
> Total patches with negative review by non-core reviewers: 75
> Total patches without a core review in the last patchset: 13
> Total patches with negative review from Jenkins: 50
> ==============================================================
> 
> It's not ideal but it's also not a lot. I'd like to recover as many
> patches as possible from the above and I'm happy to do that manually
> if necessary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Flavio
> 

It might be useful to schedule a review sprint to take a couple of days
to focus on reviews. Maybe the team can pick dates a couple of weeks in
advance so everyone can get permission to spend the full time on
reviews.

Doug