Sean, I quantified it in 2016 for some of the patches that came in to Trove; approximately 130 hours of CI time per patch given the number of hacks that the person took before even getting pep8 to run.
Close to a release boundary, that had very bad results on an already fragile Trove gate. -amrith On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > On 09/25/2017 09:28 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > <snip> > > I'm less concerned with the motivation of someone submitting the > > patches than I am with their effect. Just like the situation we had > > with the bug squash days a year or so ago, if we had a poorly timed > > set of these trivial patches coming in at our feature freeze deadline, > > it would be extremely disruptive. So to me the fact that we're > > seeing them in large batches means we have people who are not fully > > engaged with the community and don't understand the impact they're > > having. My goal is to reach out and try to improve that engagement, > > and try to help them become more fully constructive contributors. > > I think that quantifying how big that impact is would be good before > deciding it needs to be a priority to act upon. There are lots of things > that currently swamp our system, and on my back of the envelope math and > spot checking on resources used, these really aren't a big concern. > > But it's harder to see that until we really start accounting for CI time > by project / person, and what kinds of things really do consume the system. > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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