Hi,

Being based in Sydney, I tend to get a lot of list traffic in one big lump when 
I wake up. Looking at cloudstack-commits today, there are 139 messages - most 
of which are a result of git branch merges. This has been the situation a few 
times before, but this is the largest I recall seeing.

There isn't anything necessarily wrong with that, but it has me thinking about 
the effectiveness of watching that list to provide oversight on the code being 
committed. I'm asking this out of interest as a mentor in how the podling deals 
with internal code review, and also to understand how the ASF can best provide 
git infrastructure as a relatively new service. I'm not actively developing the 
project, so I wanted to hear how others who are find working with it.

The VPC branch is the obvious example at the moment. It has been active since 
June 15, and has this breakdown of commits:
- 232 unique commits
- 14 merge commits
- 259 commits merged from master

So this seems like a good period of time and work to review. Do the other 
developers here feel they adequately understand what is happening on a feature 
branch such as this, both in terms of the overall plan for the branch, and the 
review of the specific commits? Is the commits list remaining an effective tool 
to keep track of this information?

Regards,
Brett

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