On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:29:53PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > I think bug days are a good idea. We've had them sporadically in the > past, but never weekly. We stopped mostly because people stopped > showing up. > > If we think we have critical mass again, or if it makes more sense to > run one during the RC period, then let's do it. > > So... Who would show up for a bug day if we ran one?
I'm not a Nova dev, but FWIW, I can spend time doing triage and root cause analysis of areas involving virt drivers - libvirt, QEMU, KVM and any other related areas in Nova. PS: Next four weeks are going to be hectic for me personally due to some travel, but I should be more active and available after that. -- /kashyap > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:30:26AM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> > >> wrote: > >> > On 09/15/2014 05:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > >> >>> Just an observation from the last week or so... > >> >>> > >> >>> The biggest problem nova faces at the moment isn't code review > >> >>> latency. Our > >> >>> biggest problem is failing to fix our bugs so that the gate is > >> >>> reliable. > >> >>> The number of rechecks we've done in the last week to try and land > >> >>> code is > >> >>> truly startling. > >> >> > >> >> I consider both problems to be pretty much equally as important. I don't > >> >> think solving review latency or test reliabilty in isolation is enough > >> >> to > >> >> save Nova. We need to tackle both problems as a priority. I tried to > >> >> avoid > >> >> getting into my concerns about testing in my mail on review team > >> >> bottlenecks > >> >> since I think we should address the problems independantly / in > >> >> parallel. > >> > > >> > Agreed with this. I don't think we can afford to ignore either one of > >> > them. > >> > >> Yes, that was my point. I don't mind us debating how to rearrange > >> hypervisor drivers. However, if we think that will solve all our > >> problems we are confused. > >> > >> So, how do we get people to start taking bugs / gate failures more > >> seriously? > > > > I think we should have formal "Bug squash wednesdays" (or pick another > > day). By this I mean that the core reviewers will focus their attention > > on just reviews that are related to bug fixing. They will also try to > > work on bugs if they have time and encourage everyone else involved in > > Nova todo the same. We'd have a team of people in the Nova IRC channel > > to publicise & co-ordinate bug squashing, perhaps with a list of top > > 20 bugs we want to attack this week. I wouldn't focus just on gate bugs > > here since many a pretty darn hard & so would put off many people. Have > > a mix of bugs of varying difficulties to point people to. Make this a > > regular fortnightly or even weekly event which we publicise in advance > > on mailing lists, etc. > > > > Regards, > > Daniel _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
