On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:06:13AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 15:56 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Hey > > > > (Terrible name for a policy, I know) > > > > From the version_cap saga here: > > > > https://review.openstack.org/110754 > > > > I think we need a better understanding of how to approach situations > > like this. > > > > Here's my attempt at documenting what I think we're expecting the > > procedure to be: > > > > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-retrospective-veto-revert-policy > > > > If it sounds reasonably sane, I can propose its addition to the > > "Development policies" doc. > > (In the spirit of "we really need to step back and laugh at ourselves > sometimes" ... ) > > Two years ago, we were worried about patches getting merged in less than > 2 hours and had a discussion about imposing a minimum review time. How > times have changed! Is it even possible to land a patch in less than two > hours now? :) > > Looking back over the thread, this part stopped me in my tracks: > > https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08625.html > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sometimes there can be a few folks working through an issue together and > > the patch gets pushed and approved so quickly that no-one else gets a > > chance to review. > > Everyone has an opportunity to review even after a patch gets merged. > > JE > > It's not quite perfect, but if you squint you could conclude that > Johannes and I have both completely reversed our opinions in the > intervening two years :) > > The lesson I take from that is to not get too caught up in the current > moment. We're growing and evolving rapidly. If we assume everyone is > acting in good faith, and allow each other to debate earnestly without > feelings getting hurt ... we should be able to work through anything. > > Now, back on topic - digging through that thread, it doesn't seem we > settled on the idea of "we can just revert it later if someone has an > objection" in this thread. Does anyone recall when that idea first came > up?
Probably lost in time - I've seen it said several times on Nova IRC channel over the year(s) when we made a strategic decision to merge something quickly. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
