Hi John,

A few comments:

Le vendredi 28 juin 2013, à 16:04 -0500, [email protected] a écrit :
> Proposed Process:
> 
> a.      All community participants/members are encouraged to provide patch 
> (pull-request) feedback
> 
> a.      On the mailing list
> 
> b.      Over IRC channel #crowbar
> 
> c.      Via Github pull-request responses
> 
> b.      It is proposed that each participating organization is encourage to 
> appoint a subject matter expert (SME) for each key area of the crowbar code 
> base

To make this simpler, we can have one or two known contacts at each
organization, and they can be pinged to find out who can review a pull
request. My rationale for this is that this makes the list of names to
maintain much smaller :-) That means some tweaks to the details you've
put below, but that could work.

> b.      Assure that pull-requests are either handled (action is being taken) 
> within 3 days of the submission
> 
>                                                     i.     Delegate to others 
> to handle if the SME is unable to do it
> 
>                                                    ii.     Notify the Crowbar 
> mailing list that of significant processing delays
> 
>                                                   iii.     Provide periodic 
> feedback to the mailing list if a pull-request is held up

It's probably a responsability we should all share: if anyone notices
that a pull request is old and still not merged, that person should
really just ping on the list.

> c.      Code Review Cases
> 
> a.      Simple patch - action SME will merge the pull-request with minimum 
> fuss
> 
>                                                     i.     No voting required
> 
>                                                    ii.     SME exercises 
> total discretion
> 
> b.      Complex Pull-Request - patches are not potentially controversial
> 
>                                                     i.     SME seeks/waits 
> for a minimum of two (2) votes  [+1 == OK, 0 == Neutral, -1 == Blocks]
> 
>                                                    ii.     SME polls 
> community for feedback is none is received within 48 hours
> 
>                                                   iii.     SME merges 
> pull-request if no objections are received, closes pull-request at own 
> discretion
> 
> c.      Potentially Controversial Patches
> 
>                                                     i.     SME refers the 
> potential controversy to the community and engages the submitter to defend 
> the case to merge
> 
>                                                    ii.     SME referees the 
> resolution process

I'd add a fourth cases:
 - Patch fixing failure in git: this should be fast-tracked.

> Key Questions:
> 
> I.                 How should community code review discussions be conducted? 
>  (Meetings, Conference calls, IRC, other)

In general, this should really be on the pull request. But if there's
more to discuss, then IRC or the mailing list is a good first step,
imho.

> II.               Should the community create its own code releases 
> (independently from contributor organizations)?

Ideally, yes :-) It's a matter of resources, though.

> III.              What criteria shall the community adopt in respect of 
> pre-release code freeze, QA, etc.?

I'd leave this topic up to the people who would lead the community
releases.

> IV.              How should SME appointments be handled?

Bootstrap with people who are active, and then make these people
delegate the power when there's a new person who'd do a good job.

Cheers,

Vincent

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