+0

  I tend to agree with Patrick. Cool off period would add extra work for
committers. One can have additional feedback on a patch anytime after it's
proposed or committed. The discussion can continue on reviewboard or jira,
and can have a followup ticket to track the feedback.

thanks
Prasad



On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Usually what I see is that patches don't get reviewed/committed in a timely
> fashion. This tends to happen when the community is growing, you're trying
> to attract committers as one of the main goals - you have very few
> committers to handle the reviews.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Lenni Kuff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Patrick,
> > It shouldn't have a significant impact on any new contributers since the
> > reviews of their patches would could start as soon as the patch is
> posted.
> > I'm interested in your experience in this area - the only other project I
> > have worked on with a cool-off period is Hive, and a cool-off does not
> seem
> > to have had a negative impact on community growth. Do you know how other
> > projects address the problem of giving larger portion of the community a
> > chance to review a chance prior to commit?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lenni
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Ugh. I personally dislike the idea of any cool-off. It's hard enough
> for
> > > projects to get folks to review changes, introducing some artificial
> > > "freeze" is not going to be a pain and turn people off.
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Xuefu Zhang <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think 24h is usually enough. It gets complicated when we start
> > > > considering weekends, holidays (different countries, regions), etc.
> > > Longer
> > > > waiting period is at the discretion of the one who's going to make
> the
> > > > commit.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Xuefu
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Ma, Junjie <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > +1 cool off 48 hrs because of the weekend.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Colin Ma(Ma Jun Jie)
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Lenni Kuff [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 3:25 AM
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Cool off period for commits?
> > > > >
> > > > > Currently Sentry has not policy in place for a cool off period for
> > > > commits
> > > > > (time after patch has gotten +1'ed that the change can be
> committed).
> > > > This
> > > > > limits the opportunity other people in the community can review a
> > > change
> > > > > prior to it going in. This is particularly important since we have
> > > > > committers across many different time zones
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you all think about adding a cool-off period for all
> commits
> > > > after
> > > > > a patch has gotten a +1? The Hive project uses 24 hours, so we
> could
> > go
> > > > > with that. Could also use something longer like 48 or 72 hours.
> > > Thoughts?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Lenni
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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