Huge +1 to "We should stress out that a patch should be committed if and
only if committer is confident with the changes."

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:54 AM Vladimir Ozerov <voze...@gridgain.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is tough question, and first of all I'd like to ask participants to
> keep cold head. This is a public question and can be discussed on the dev
> list safely.
>
> On the one hand, it is true that a number of patches are not reviewed for a
> long time, what negatively affects community development. On the other
> hand, we definitely do not want to sacrifice product quality only because
> e.g. responsible component owner was on a sick leave or vacation and was
> not able to review the patch in a timely manner. Some compromise is needed.
>
> IMO additional comments in HTC may solve the issue. We should stress out
> that a patch should be committed if and only if committer is confident with
> the changes. Confidence comes from either experience (you worked with
> component a lot and know what you are doing), or from review by component's
> expert. But if there is an outdated patch and you are not confident enough,
> just don't merge. Let is stay in Patch Available as long as needed.
>
> In case of lazy consensus we may ask committers to add comments to the
> ticket explaining why they decided to merge a ticket without expert's
> review. This should help us avoid bad commits.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:33 AM Anton Vinogradov <a...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Dmitry,
> >
> > Phrase "Code modifications can be approved by silence: by lazy consensus
> > (72h) after Dev.List announcement." looks unacceptable to me.
> >
> > Please roll back the changes and start the discussion at the private list
> > and never do such updates in the future without the discussion.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:29 PM Dmitriy Pavlov <dpav...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Igniters,
> > >
> > > sorry for the late reply. Because this process time to time causes
> > > questions, I decided to add a couple of words to our wiki.
> > >
> > > I've added topics about peer review to HTC
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/How+to+Contribute#HowtoContribute-PeerReviewandLGTM
> > >
> > > Actually, it is (more or less) rules of Apache Beam project, as well as
> > > Apache Training(incubating), as well as our current process + Apache
> > > policies.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Dmitriy Pavlov
> > >
> > >
> > > чт, 16 авг. 2018 г. в 17:46, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org>:
> > >
> > > > Dmitry,
> > > >
> > > > I like your suggestion very much! And I want everyone to follow.
> Let's
> > > see
> > > > if it helps.
> > > >
> > > > Can I ask everyone who has submitted tickets for review to add a
> > comment
> > > > described by Dmitry to each ticket submitted and see if any
> additional
> > > > check is still required and fix remaining issues? I believe this
> should
> > > > speed up review process very much.
> > > >
> > > > --Yakov
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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