One comment on the timing: but doing it now you make cherry picks for 2.4.x 
harder, of which were about to do a lot of. The best time to do such a change 
is just _before_ cutting the next main branch.

On 10 September 2022 21:38:12 BST, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey Everyone,
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>TL;DR; I planned to ask for help in reviewing the 48 (pretty much
>fully automated PRs I prepared, but a comment from TP made me think that
>maybe I went too much ahead and maybe there are other ideas on implementing
>the change (or even maybe not implementing it at all).
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>More context:
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>I have just attempted what I THOUGHT was generally accepted and good idea,
>but comment from TP made me think maybe I went ahead of everyone else, so I
>am reaching here to see if this was a good idea (And I am ready to back-out
>and do it differently - and follow another way if someone can propose it).
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>I just (literally while watching Poland <-> Brazil Volleybal World
>Championship semi-finals) prepared 48 separate PRs to migrate to
>__future__.annotations which (I thought) was considered a good idea and
>something we wanted to defer to after v2-4-test branch cut-off because of
>the concerns that it might make cherry-picking more complex. It was 9X%
>fully automated conversion - by search/replace and adding `from __future__
>import annotations` and letting upgrade do the job (as discussed before).
>I also split the one huge PR into 48 (!) much smaller PRs - basically one
>per each "airflow" core package, few big providers separately, tests
>separately (as they are far less risky than "core code" change).
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>We already added __future__ annotation in a number of other places before -
>without a "broad" agreement and consensus/voting (different people did in
>various places - including myself and others) so I thought this is not
>something we need a broader voting/consensus on.
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>Again - that was 95% automated change where I contributed mostly the
>thinking "how to split '' theI PR and all the rest was literally "git
>commit add <package>" (and let pyupgrade and our other pre-commits like
>isort and others) do the job.
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>It never occured to me that this might be a problem for anyone. My
>understanding of the problem was:
>* we want to do it
>* we were afraid to do it before because it would make cherry-picking to
>2-3 branch more problematic
>* we wanted to do it right "when" we cut-off the 2.4 branch (for the same
>reason as above - we wanted to avoid cherry-picking problems for 2.4.*
>changes)
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>So I wanted to make this change as fast as humanly possible - and raise
>this multiple PRs so we can review/approve (and I'd cherry-pick them) as
>soon as possible to minimise the cherry-picking problem.
>
>But maybe I was too fast and it's not as straightforward as I thought it
>was? (actually it never occured to me that there might be a slightest
>problem with it after the earlier discussion). I literally thought about it
>as a mechanical change that we want to introduce and that doing that in
>small chunks (as discussed in the original PR) was the best approach. The
>comment from TP
>https://apache-airflow.slack.com/archives/CCPRP7943/p1662837864413849  -
>made me think that I have misjudged it.
>
>I wanted to write that email asking all of the committers here to help to
>review and merge all those PRs as fast as possible (again - those are
>purely mechanical changes, there are literally a few - literally less than
>5) manual changes I had to make to fix some mypy problems.
>All the PRs are here:
>https://github.com/apache/airflow/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Afuture-annotations
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>But then I ask for something else then:
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>* do you think this is fine we add __future__ annotations in general
>* do you think the way I proposed it is somewhat too In-human (i honestly
>feel it is an in-human change - because it is fully automated by our tools
>:D). But is it wrong approach to have 48 PRs automatically prepared by our
>tools to get a "consistent" approach
>* did I do it too fast/too early ?
>* any ideas on how we can do it differently to avoid the "cherry-picking"
>problems (mentioned by others in the original message)?
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>I am really concerned to ask if this is something I have done wrongly or
>misunderstood the consensus, and maybe chose the wrong way ? Maybe I should
>approach it differently and ask for consensus on such a flurry of PRS? Or
>maybe the timing is wrong.
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>I am happy to follow in any way there - I can either keep the PRs and
>rebase them until the time is good (it takes about two minutes to rebase
>every one of them and apply the automation again)  if the way I proposed it
>was because I misunderstood the "sentiment" about the change - or follow
>any other way that will help us to implement the change - or even abandon
>it completely if we will agree it's not a good idea. I am also happy to
>apply any "general comments" there - now that the PR's are there, applying
>any automation even on all of them to improve it, is rather simple.
>
>Looking forward to any comments. I am really curious how others look at it
>- regardless of the outcome - always eager to learn new things :)
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>J.
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>On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 8:52 AM Tobiasz Kędzierski <
>[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Great idea.  +1 from me. Thanks for raising this up Jarek and thanks to
>> Pierre for great isort tip :)
>>
>> BR
>> Tobiasz
>>

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