John, +2
I am guilty of falling behind on reviews. Pulled in to a lot of other stuff since the summit ... and before. Having prescribed time on my calendar is a good idea. Just put it on my calendar. Jay On Jun 12, 2014 10:49 PM, "John Griffith" <john.griff...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > So I've been noticing some issues with regards to reviews in Cinder > lately, namely we're not keeping up very well. Most of this is a math > problem (submitters >> reviewers). We're up around 200+ patches in the > queue, and a large number of them have no negative feedback but have just > been waiting patiently (some > 2 months). > > Growth is good, new contributors are FANTASTIC... but stale submissions in > the queue are BAD, and I hate for people interested in contributing to > become discouraged and just go away (almost as much as I hate emails asking > me to review patches). > > I'd like to propose we consider one or two review days a week for a while > to try and work on our backlog. I'd like to propose that on these days we > make an attempt to NOT propose new code (or at least limit it to bug-fixes > [real bugs, not features disguised as bugs]) and have an agreement from > folks to focus on actually doing reviews and using IRC to collaborate > together and knock some of these out. > > We did this sort of thing over a virtual meetup and it was really > effective, I'd like to see if we can't do something for a brief duration > over IRC. > > I'm thinking we give it a test run, set aside a few hours next Wed morning > to start (coinciding with our Cinder weekly meeting since many folks around > that morning across TZ's etc) where we all dedicate some time prior to the > meeting to focus exclusively on helping each other get some reviews knocked > out. As a reminder Cinder weekly meeting is 16:00 UTC. > > Let me know what you all think, and keep in mind this is NOT limited to > just current regular "Block-Heads" but anybody in the OpenStack community > that's willing to help out and of course new reviewers are MORE than > welcome. > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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