On 09/23/2010 12:19 AM, Martin Pool wrote: > I just noticed today there's something like 40 approved ready-to-land > reviews on <https://code.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+activereviews>, > with about 10 over a month old. It seems like a lot.... Why do you > suppose they sit there for so long? >
Pure speculation here, but I think that it is partly a side-effect of distributed development: you can not easily see where the work is, or where undelivered work has built up. We don't see or count the unmerged branches every day (no one person does), and the system, people, and process do not warn us when too much undelivered work has built up. A pet project of mine is to deliver a tray application for the Gnome desktop that shows red, green, and yellow status lights for each station in our development process: PQM, EC2, buildbot, QA, etc. A developer running the tray app can see right away when something has mucked up, be that in their own EC2 instance, a buildbot builder fail, or stale QA. It is modeled after a Japanese system called Andon. You could double-up the Andon system to warn you about the amount of undelivered code at each stage of development: Unlanded: xxxxxxxxxxxx PQM: xxx Buildbot: xx QA: xxxxxx Undeployed: xxxxxxxx You can also set up an Andon warning (a traffic light) if levels get too high. (You need the tray warning because unlike in a factory, where everyone can see the inventory stack is too high, your desktop doesn't have the screen space to use a visual metaphor.) -- Māris Fogels -- https://launchpad.net/~mars Launchpad.net -- cross-project collaboration and hosting
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