On 29 August 2014 18:48, Dugger, Donald D <donald.d.dug...@intel.com> wrote: > All good points but I want to add an observation. > > IRC seems to be the generic answer to all problems and, personally, I don't > think that's a good medium. Having to depend upon who just might be on IRC > at a particular moment seems rather hit or miss. I much prefer something > like email where I have a little more time to compose my thoughts, you don't > have to be right there constantly and there's an easy history. > > Note, that's just personal preference, given that IRC is the preferred medium > for many things I'll just have to change my processes.
After moving to use ZNC, I find IRC works much better for me now, but I am still learning really. Email is fine. Both works well too (IRC ping me to read the email). Personally, I find conversations on IRC more efficient than long email threads, with slow replies. But I certainly want to respect everyones communication preferences. John > -----Original Message----- > From: John Garbutt [mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com] > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 4:35 AM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Is the BP approval process broken? > > Going a bit further up the thread where we are still talking about spec > reviews and not code reviews... > > On 28 August 2014 21:42, Dugger, Donald D <donald.d.dug...@intel.com> wrote: >> I would contend that that right there is an indication that there's a >> problem with the process. > > We got two nova-core reviewer sponsors, to ensure the code would get reviewed > before FF. > > We probably should have got two nova-driver sponsors for a spec freeze. The > cores don't have +2 in spec land. > > This is the first release we are doing specs, so there are likely to be holes > in the process. I think next time we could try two nova-cores and two > nova-drivers (the driver might sign up for the spec review, but not the code > review). > > Also, the spec only got an exception for one week only. I was very late on > adding the -2, apologies. I just spotted it was missed out, when doing a bit > of house keeping for juno-3. > >> You submit a BP and then you have no idea of what is happening and no way of >> addressing any issues. If the priority is wrong I can explain why I think >> the priority should be higher, getting stonewalled leaves me with no idea >> what's wrong and no way to address any problems. > > Feel free to raise this in the nova-meeting, or ping me or mikal on IRC or > via email. > >> I think, in general, almost everyone is more than willing to adjust >> proposals based upon feedback. Tell me what you think is wrong and I'll >> either explain why the proposal is correct or I'll change it to address the >> concerns. > > Right. In this case, we just didn't get it reviewed. As mentioned, probably > because people didn't see this as important right now. > >> Trying to deal with silence is really hard and really frustrating. >> Especially given that we're not supposed to spam the mailing it's really >> hard to know what to do. > > For blueprint process stuff, email or catch me (johnthetubaguy) on IRC, or > mikal on IRC, or any of the nova-drivers. We can usually get you an answer. > Or generally ask people in #openstack-nova who should be able to point you in > the right direction. > >>I don't know the solution but we need to do something. More core team >>members would help, maybe something like an automatic timeout where >>BPs/patches with no negative scores and no activity for a week get flagged >>for special handling. > > We are brainstorming ideas for Kilo. But its always a balance. I don't want > to add extra red tape for every issue we have. > > Right now we rely on people shouting on IRC if we forget really important > things, and fixing stuff up as required. > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev