On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 08:26:51PM +0800, Tonghao Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 2:41 AM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The OVS review process has greatly slowed over the last few years. This > > is partly because I haven't been able to spend as much time on review, > > since I was once the most productive reviewer. Ilya has been able to > Thanks for your work! > > step up the amount of review he does, but that still isn't enough to > > keep up with the workload. > > > > We need to come up with some way to improve things. Here are a few > > ideas, mostly from a call earlier today (that was mainly about the OVS > > conference). I hope they will prompt a discussion. > > > > * Since patches are coming in, we have people who are knowledgable about > > the code. Those people should be pitching in with reviews as well. > > It doesn't seem like they or their managers have the right incentives > > to do that. Maybe there is some way to improve the incentives. > Do we need more maintainers? even though there are many maintainers, but > a few people are active. Am I wrong ?
That reminds me of another point brought up in discussion in the call. We have some people who are active and valuable contributors, but who have not been officially appointed as maintainers. We should nominate and confirm them, because this also removes a bottleneck from the process for getting patches in. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
