On Oct 15, 2013, at 19:18 , Duncan Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13 October 2013 00:19, Alessandro Pilotti > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you don't like any of the options that this already long thread is >> providing, I'm absolutely open to discuss any constructive idea. But please, >> let's get out of this awful mess. >> >> OpenStack is still a young project. Let's make sure that we can hand it on >> to the next devs generations by getting rid of these management bottlenecks >> now! > > Get a hyper-v person trained up to the point they are a nova core > reviewer, where they can not only prioritise hyper-v related reviews > but also reduce the general review backlog in nova (which affects > everybody... there are a few cinder features that required nova merges > that didn't get in before feature freeze either and had to be disabled > in cinder). > About getting a Nova core, from a previous email that I wrote on this thread: > … > Our domain is the area in which me and my sub-team can add the biggest value. > Being also an independent startup, we reached now the stage in which we can > sponsor some devs to do reviews all the time outside of our core domain, but > this will take a few months spawning one or two releases as aquiring the > necessary understanding of a project like e.g. Nova cannot be done overnight. > … Anyway, although this will help, it won't be a solution. A central control without delegation is going to fail anyway as the project size increases. > There's a 'tax' to contributing to openstack, which is dedicating some > time to reviewing other people's work. The more people do that, the > faster things go for everybody. The higher rate tax is being a core > reviewer, but that comes with certain advantages too. > Here's the point. A driver dev pays this "tax" across multiple projects, e.g.: by reviewing Hyper-V code in Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer, Cloudbase-Init, Crowbar, OpenVSwitch and so on. As a consequence the amount of review work in a single project will never be enough to get a core status. > -- > Duncan Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
