[Engine-devel] [vdsm] stale gerrit patches

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "David Caro" <dcaroest at redhat.com>, "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:50:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [vdsm] stale gerrit patches
> 
> On 09/23/2013 01:49 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> >> To: "David Caro" <dcaroest at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>,
> >> vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
> >> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:47:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [vdsm] stale gerrit patches
> >>
> >> On 09/23/2013 01:46 PM, David Caro wrote:
> >>> On Mon 23 Sep 2013 12:36:58 PM CEST, Itamar Heim wrote:
> >>>> we have some very old gerrit patches.
> >>>> I'm for abandoning patches which were not touched over 60 days (to
> >>>> begin with, I think the number should actually be lower).
> >>>> they can always be re-opened by any interested party post their closure.
> >>>>
> >>>> i.e., looking at gerrit, the patch list should actually get attention,
> >>>> and not be a few worth looking at, with a "lot of old patches"
> >>>>
> >>>> thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>      Itamar
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> vdsm-devel mailing list
> >>>> vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
> >>>> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
> >>>
> >>> It might helpful to have a cron-like script that checks the age of the
> >>> posts and first notifies the sender, the reviewers and the maintainer,
> >>> and if the patch is not updated in a certain period just abandons it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> yep - warn after X days via email to just owner (or all subscribed to
> >> the patch), and close if no activity for X+14 days or something like that.
> >
> > This will be annoying.
> >
> > And there are patches that pending with good reason.
> 
> pending for 60 days with zero activity on them (no comment, no rebase,
> nothing)?

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:ovirt-engine+branch:master+topic:independent_deployments,n,z

> 
> >
> > Maintainers can close patches that are no interest nor progress.
> >
> > Alon
> >
> 
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