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John, thanks, this is great info. (more comments inline below).

-amrith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dickinson [mailto:me at not.mn]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 11:16 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][infra][ptls] tagging reviews, making
> tags searchable
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 Mar 2016, at 7:15, Amrith Kumar wrote:
> 
> > As we were working through reviews for the Mitaka release, the Trove
> team was trying to track groups of reviews that were needed for a specific
> milestone, like m-1, or m-3 or in the recent days for rc1.
> >
> > The only way we could find was to have someone (in this instance, me)
> 'star' the reviews that we wanted and then have people look for reviews
> with 'starredby:amrith' and status:open.
> >
> > How do other projects do this? Is there a simple way to tag reviews in a
> searchable way?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -amrith
> 
> 
> We've had 3 iterations of tracking/prioritizing reviews in Swift (and it's
> still a work-in-progress).
> 
> 1) I write down stuff on a wiki page.
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift/PriorityReviews Currently, this is
> updated for the work we're getting done over this next week for the Mitaka
> release.
> 
> 2) Gerrit dashboards like https://goo.gl/mtEv1C. This has a section at the
> top which included "starred by the PTL" patches.
> 

[amrith] Yes, we have something like this in a dashboard. I've been also looking at some other stuff

http://chris.wang/posts/2016/01/04/gerrit-dashboards
https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-project-owner.html
https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/user-dashboards.html#project-dashboards

Which allow you to cause your dashboards to show up in the projects/dashboards area so one doesn't have to have the link shortened links; basically the query from gerrit-dashboard-creator tool gets to be part of the project wide dashboard.

> 3) A dashboard generated from gerrit and git data.
> http://not.mn/swift/swift_community_dashboard.html The "Community Starred
> Patches" is a list of the top 20 commonly starred patches by the Swift
> community. Basically, for every person who has gerrit activity around
> Swift, I pull their stars. From that I can see which patches are more
> commonly starred. I also weight each person's stars according to their
> level of activity in the project. This gives a very good idea of what the
> community as a whole finds important.
> 

[amrith] This is a wonderful idea and I'm going to see if I can do something like this for Trove. Many thanks!

> I've found a role for all of these tools at different times--I don't think
> one is generally better than another. Right now as we're finishing up a
> release for Mitaka, all 3 tools are useful for helping coordinate the
> remaining work.
> 
> My generate community dashboard isn't done. There's a lot more information
> I can pull and use to help prioritize reviews. I plan on working on this
> after the Mitaka release gets cut. Here's a teaser for the next thing I'll
> be doing: given a person's email, generate an ordered list of patches that
> person should review or work on to be most effective.
> 
> --John
>