On 07/23/2014 06:22 AM, Kyle Mestery wrote: > Thanks for sending this out Salvatore. We are way oversubscribed, > and at this point, I'm in agreement on not letting any new > exceptions which do not fall under the above guidelines. Given how > much is already packed in there, this makes the most sense.
The increasing time to merge patches and the increasing backlog was a topic that came up during the Board meeting on Tuesday. Signals seem to point at not enough core reviewers in many projects as one of the causes of these issues. I have signed up to analyze this more carefully so that the board can come up with suggestions/requirements to members organization. Stay tuned for more. For the short term, though, a careful analysis and exercise in prioritization together with extra efforts for reviews from the parties involved would be great. On 07/24/2014 07:05 AM, CARVER, PAUL wrote: > I don't really follow Linux kernel development, but a quick search > turned up [1] which seems to indicate at least one additional level > between It's hard to drive parallels across such different projects. I would consider Andrew and Linus our release managers (stable vs current) and subsystem maintainers the equivalent of our PTLs, the driver maintainers as our 'core reviewers'. I don't think there are more layers on the kernel. BTW, I heard that in April OpenStack may have surpassed the kernel in terms of monthly commits, so we're comparable in size. > Speaking only for myself and not AT&T, I'm disappointed that my > employer doesn't have more developers actively writing code. We ought > to (in my personal opinion) be supplying core reviewers to at least a > couple of OpenStack projects. Yes, I would expect any company the size of ATT be providing at least 1 developer upstream for 10 developers downstream. I'll be looking at some numbers to check if there is a general behavior around this, mabye come up with recommendations. Stay tuned. /stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev