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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is all great stuff Jay, but it's going to get lost if it's just in email.  http://wiki.openstack.org/LifeWithBzrAndLaunchpad has some of this on, but it's nothing like as clear and succinct as you've got it below.

Cheers.

> Could someone break out a "how peer reviews work" wiki page, and put this content on it?  We really need these things to be nice clear steps so that everyone knows what to expect.

Sure. I don't want to step on anything termie was doing, though. Andy,
did you have a link to the wiki page you were putting together about
reviewing? I'll add some thoughts to that.

-jay

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Jay Pipes
>> Sent: 25 February 2011 10:07
>> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Openstack] Working on fixing code after a review? Please mark
>> merge proposal Work In Progress!
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> The backlog on code reviews continues to mount:
>> https://code.launchpad.net/nova/+activereviews
>>
>> One thing that would REALLY help reviewers is the following:
>>
>> If you receive one or more reviews that have asked for fixes to your
>> branch (Needs Fixing), and you agree to these fixes, please do the
>> following:
>>
>> * Write a quick comment on the merge proposal acknowledging the review
>> and stating you are working on fixing the branch
>> * Set the merge proposal status to Work In Progress
>>
>> When you do this, your branch gets removed from the list of merge
>> proposals that reviewers need to review (the link above), which helps
>> reviewers to identify which branches are truly in need of review and
>> which branches are actually being worked on after reviews.
>>
>> After you make the changes to your branch, please do the following:
>>
>> * bzr push your changes to Launchpad
>> * Go to your merge proposal and set the status back to Needs Review
>>
>> This will trigger:
>>
>> * Launchpad to regenerate the diff that is displayed for your branch
>> * Launchpad to email all prior reviewers to let them know they need to
>> re-review your branch
>>
>> Doing these simple steps will make reviewing dramatically easier; the
>> side-effect of that is reviews will be quicker and we can get through
>> this backlog.
>>
>> Thanks for listening,
>> jay
>>
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