On 01/03/2014 09:44 AM, Anne Gentle wrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org
<mailto:thie...@openstack.org>> wrote:
Tim Bell wrote:
> Is there a mechanism to tag changes as being potentially more
appropriate for the more ops related profiles ? I'm thinking more
when someone proposes a change they suspect could have an operations
impact, they could highlight this as being one for particular focus.
>
> How about an OpsImpact tag ?
I think such a tag would help. That would encourage ops to start looking
more regularly into proposed changes by highlighting the few reviews
that are most likely to need their expertise.
We could have that tag post reviews to the -operators ML (in the same
way SecurityImpact posts to the -security ML), which would additionally
reinforce the need for this list as a separate list from the openstack
general list.
I think this is a good idea, though I have to say when we were using
DocImpact in this way, it kills conversational dialog on the mailing
list because all the robots start talking on your list as more people
use the flag. We have since moved to automatically logging a doc bug
rather than posting to the mailing list.
Still, I think it's worth trying for OpsImpact because there's not a
secondary place to log the impactful patches. Nice idea, Tim!
If we are going down this path, it would be good to give reviewers a
training set. So a dozen patches that someone things would be good
OpsImpact and a dozen patches which clearly aren't.
Otherwise I fear we're making a lot of assumptions about what people
believe are and are not OpsImpact and I don't think it will be that helpful.
I also really think that this is the less useful approach than taking
those key ops issues into the CI toolchain. And if people only have one
place to spend energy, spending it on the CI side is way more beneficial.
-Sean
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Sean Dague
Samsung Research America
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