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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joe Gordon wrote:
>> I have noticed that some Gerrit branches get approved very quickly,
>> sometimes in a matter of minutes.   While most of the time these
>> branches are vetted properly, the window for reviewing can be so small
>> that a non-trivial branch lands but without enough vetting.  If someone
>> is in a meeting for half on hour they may miss the entire review window.
>> To fix this problem I propose a minimum time frame (should be
>> overridable in an emergency) for a branch to be approved, perhaps 2
>> hours.  This time frame would start on 'Upload time.'  
> 
> I bet this issue happens for Nova, but does not occur in the other
> projects. In small teams of reviewers (maximum 5-6 people), every
> reviewer quickly gets to know what makes the other reviewers tick. Those
> small review groups work as a team, asking the chap who cares about a
> particular set of things to weigh in before they would accept a given
> change. Nova-core (26 people) is just too big to work like that.
> 
> The issue with time gates is that they have to be sufficiently long to
> be timezone-friendly, and some basic fixes really need to get in faster.
> 
> So I'd rather work on formally splitting the nova-core group into
> smaller topic-oriented review groups, which would ensure that code
> affecting a given area is reviewed by the experts of that area (rather
> than by whoever happens to be on ReviewDay duty), and would allow them
> to work as a team.

+1

d

> 
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> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
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