On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/07/2014 09:07 AM, Sean Dague wrote:> I think the difference is > slot selection would just be Nova drivers. I >> think there is an assumption in the old system that everyone in Nova >> core wants to prioritize the blueprints. I think there are a bunch of >> folks in Nova core that are happy having signaling from Nova drivers on >> high priority things to review. (I know I'm in that camp.) >> >> Lacking that we all have picking algorithms to hack away at the 500 open >> reviews. Which basically means it's a giant random queue. >> >> Having a few blueprints that *everyone* is looking at also has the >> advantage that the context for the bits in question will tend to be >> loaded into multiple people's heads at the same time, so is something >> that's discussable. >> >> Will it fix the issue, not sure, but it's an idea. > > OK, got it. So, success critically depends on nova-core being willing > to take review direction and priority setting from nova-drivers. That > sort of assumption is part of why I think agile processes typically > don't work in open source. We don't have the ability to direct people > with consistent and reliable results. > > I'm afraid if people doing the review are not directly involved in at > least ACKing the selection and commiting to review something, putting > stuff in slots seems futile.
I think some of this discussion is because I haven't had a chance to write a summary of the meetup yet for the public mailing list. That's something I will try and do today. We talked about having a regular discussion in our weekly meeting of what reviews were strategic at a given point in time. In my mind if we do the runway thing, then that list of reviews would be important bug fixes and slot occupying features. I think an implied side effect of the runway system is that nova-drivers would -2 blueprint reviews which were not occupying a slot. (If we start doing more -2's I think we will need to explore how to not block on someone with -2's taking a vacation. Some sort of role account perhaps). I think at the moment nova is lost in the tactical, instead of trying to rise above that to solve strategic problems. That's a big risk to the project, because its not how we handle the big issues our users actually care about. Michael -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
