From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Jerin Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>, dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>,
"akhil.goyal@nxp.com" <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
"rasland@mellanox.com" <rasland@mellanox.com>,
"xiaolong.ye@intel.com" <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>,
"ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com" <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>,
"arybchenko@solarflare.com" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Cc: "techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Suggestion to improve the code review
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 10:59:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4275f55-29f1-5adb-dea5-d979c482cc07@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR18MB24244136BA2220B3A60AFC0EC8B10@BYAPR18MB2424.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
On 27-May-20 10:28 AM, Jerin Kollanukkaran wrote:
> I think, original discussion[1] on this topic got lost in GitHub vs current workflow.
>
>
> I would like to propose GitHub "CODEOWNERS"[2] _LIKE_ scheme for DPDK workflow.
>
> Current scheme:
> - When we submit a patch to ml, someone(Tree maintainer[3]) needs to manually
> delegate the patch to Tree maintainer in patchwork.
> - Tree maintainer is not responsible for the review of the patch but only responsible
> for merging _after_ the review. That brings the obvious question on review responsibility.
>
>
> Proposed scheme:
> - In order to improve review ownership, IMO, it is better the CI tools delegate
> the patch to the actual maintainer(who is responsible for specific code in MAINTAINERS file)
> - I believe, it provides a sense of ownership, avoids last-minute surprise on
> review responsibility and improve review traceability.
>
> Implementation of the proposed scheme:
> GitHub provides a bot for CODEOWNERS integration, Similar alternative is possible with
> patchwork with "auto delegation scheme" using the flowing methods:
>
> a) https://patchwork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/delegation/
> b) https://patchwork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/headers/
>
> I think, option (a) would be relatively easy to change without introducing the new tools.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1]
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-May/168740.html
> [2]
> https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/master/CODEOWNERS
> [3]
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/
>
The "which patches should i review first" button is a huge +1000 from
me, as this has been a big issue i've had with current workflow for a
long time. Thomas has mentioned "Cc:" as a "fine grained" system to
assign patches, but the truth is, CC is not a good way of doing it
because i get CC'd in all kinds of stuff, and the important patches get
lost.
That said, i don't think it's that easy, because more often than not,
patches touch a lot of different areas, so a one line change in meson, a
test and a line in EAL gets half of DPDK maintainers CC'd into the
patch. I wonder if there is a mechanism for some kind of "threshold" for
assigning people to the patch - i.e. if a one-liner is half of the
changes in the patch, then maintainer gets CC'd, but if a one-liner is
just one of a thousand other unrelated lines, then perhaps there's no
need to CC the maintainer... or something along those lines :) there's a
machine learning project in here somewhere :D
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 9:28 Jerin Kollanukkaran
2020-05-27 9:59 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2020-05-27 11:27 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-27 10:08 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-06-02 12:27 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-02 14:57 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-06-02 16:23 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-03 13:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-06-03 13:56 ` Jerin Jacob
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