Open Stack

On 10/20/2015 12:43 PM, Dolph Mathews wrote:
> This is actually something I've thought a lot about (focusing the
> community's review efforts), and have experimented with various
> solutions in the keystone community. I've built external solutions that
> have worked fairly well, but my current preference is to take advantage
> of what's already built into gerrit: starred reviews and dashboards.
> 
> For example, here is a dashboard of reviews in the keystone ecosystem
> starred by any member of keystone-core that *you* have not reviewed
> yourself (so you'll need to be logged into gerrit for this link to work):
> 
>   http://bit.ly/1GnOuqw [1]
> 
> In other words, it's a personalized review queue of things keystone-core
> deems important.
> 
> The advantage I see to this approach over a new label is that the star
> feature is already in the gerrit UI and so people already use it. But
> broadly speaking, I'm not aware of anyone utilizing that data today as a
> crowd sourced data point.

The rally team uses it as part of their dashboard -
https://github.com/stackforge/gerrit-dash-creator/blob/4d597f3b9c62f4422e3f8cdcd3b9c96921faa155/dashboards/rally.dash#L6-L7

> If you'd like to create your own version of this dashboard, here's the
> gerrit-dash-creator config file for this dashboard:
> 
>   https://github.com/dolph/dotfiles/blob/master/gerrit-dashboard-keystone
> 
> To customize it for yourself, you'd pretty much only need to edit the
> [dashboard] section, and specifically the "foreach" value to reflect the
> right collection of projects and group of reviewers. After that it's a
> matter of using gerrit-dash-creator to produce the link:
> 
>   https://github.com/openstack/gerrit-dash-creator
> 
> I'd love to take this a couple steps further if people find the approach
> valuable. I'd like to regularly recreate these links for every project
> based on the latest *-core membership, and the latest set of projects in
> a given community, publish them to permalinks, and share those
> permalinks with code reviewers.

One of the challenges you run into is url length limits in browsers,
given that we're encoding the whole thing in the url.

I do think the overall approach has a lot of merrit, though it would
still be awesome if there was a more baked in tagging in gerrit.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net