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On 4 April 2016 at 09:36, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:

> Graham <graham.hayes at hpe.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/04/2016 17:11, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I noticed that often times we go and -2 all the patches in the review
>>> queue
>>> on every neutron specific gate breakage spotted. This is allegedly done
>>> to
>>> make sure that nothing known to be broken land in merge gate until we fix
>>> the breakage on our side.
>>>
>>> While I share the goal of not resetting the gate if we can avoid it, I
>>> find
>>> the way we do it a bit too aggressive. Especially considering that often
>>> times those -2 votes sit there not cleared even days after the causing
>>> breakage is fixed, needlessly blocking patches landing.
>>>
>>> I suggest we either make sure that we remove those -2 votes right after
>>> gate fixes land, or we use other means to communicate to core reviewers
>>> that there is a time window when nothing should land in the merge queue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ihar
>>>
>>
>> I recently submitted https://review.openstack.org/295253 as an idea for
>> designate to prioritize reviews.
>>
>> Something similar could be a good solution, in conjunction with a bot.
>>
>> So, when a gate breakage starts, saying "!gate breakage" would apply a
>> "-1 Procedural Block" that gets removed when "!gate fixed" was said?
>>
>> This removes the need for humans to do the removal (and try and
>> remember which reviews were really -2'd or they had had a -1 on)
>>
>
> Thanks for the idea, that’s indeed an interesting approach. It also helps
> in that now any core member would be able to consistently block project
> patches for merge gate, or cancel the alert.
>
> Armando, do you think we could try to adopt the approach? If yes, I may
> look into a patch for that.


Um, not sure, it feels over-engineered.


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> Ihar
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