Open Stack

Hi infra-folk,

During the PTG in Shanghai the Release Management team discussed solving 
one of the remaining pain points in reviewing release requests: checking 
that the PTL or designated liaisons have actually +1 the request, before 
casting our own +2 vote.

Since they change every 6 months, it's hard to remember names for the 
60+ teams we have, so this manual check currently involves each of us 
diving into test logs, scrolling down to the place where PTLs and 
liaisons are listed, and then comparing them with current approvals in 
Gerrit. What if... we could automate that ?

My proposed solution for this would be to create a specific pipeline 
that would trigger on specific comments (including "CodeReview"), and 
vote Label-PTL-approved on success. Then create a job that would run for 
openstack/releases changes altering deliverables/** files, and check the 
current change approvals against the list of PTLs and release liaisons.

The job should be lightweight enough to run on the executor. With all 
those safeguards in place, I do not expect it to trigger significant 
additional load.

Let me know if the idea generally sounds good or bad, or if you see 
simpler ways to achieve a similar results.

Regards,

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)