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On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 15:29, Balázs Gibizer <balazs.gibizer at est.tech> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 21:34, Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 17:42 +0200, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  [This is a topic from the PTG etherpad [0]. As the PTG time is
> >>  intentionally kept short, let's try to discuss it or even conclude
> >> it
> >>  before the PTG]
> >>
> >>
> >>  In the last 4 cycles we used a process called runway to focus and
> >>  timebox of the team's feature review effort. However compared to the
> >>  previous cycles in ussuri we did not really keep the process
> >> running.
> >>  Just compare the length of the Log section of each etherpad
> >>  [1][2][3][4] to see the difference. So I have two questions:
> >>
> >>  1) Do we want to keep the process in Victoria?
> >>
> >>  2) If yes, how we can make the process running?
> >>  2.1) How can we keep the runway etherpad up-to-date?
> >>  2.2) How to make sure that the team is focusing on the reviews that
> >> are
> >>  in the runway slots?
> >>
> >>  Personally I don't want to advertise this process for contributors
> >> if
> >>  the core team is not agreed and committed to keep the process
> >> running
> >>  as it would lead to unnecessary disappointment.
> >
> > I tend to use this as a way to find things to review, though I think
> > I'd be equally well served by a gerrit dashboard that filtered on bp
> > topics. I've stopped using it because I already do a lot of reviews
> > and
> > have no issue finding more but also, more importantly, because I
> > didn't
> > find having *my* items in a runway significantly increased reviews
> > from
> > anyone != mriedem. If there were sign on from every core to prioritize
> > this (perhaps with a reminder during the weekly meeting?) then I'd
> > embrace it again. If not though, I'd rather we dropped it than make
> > false promises.
>
> I totally agree to avoid the false promise. As far as I understood you
> dropped reviewing things in the runway at least partly because the
> focused review of your patches the runway promised you was not
> delivered. This support my feeling that the core team needs to re-take
> the agreement that we want to follow this process and that we are
> willing to prioritize reviews in the slots.
>
> I as the PTL willing to do the scheduling of the slots (a.k.a
> paperwork) and sure I can add a topic for the meeting agenda about
> patches in the runway slots.
>
> I as a core willing to try again the runway process by prioritizing
> reviewing things in the slots.
>
> Let's see other core will join in.

I find it useful to know where we are agreeing to focus.
I like how it helped get move items done done, a bit like how
feature freeze focuses the mind.

Although sometimes I found I had zero context on all patches
in the list, once looking at the patches,
so I moved my attention elsewhere given limited bandwidth.

I like the idea of using the new gerrit features instead of etherpads,
so its all on one dashboard.

Thanks,
johnthetubaguy