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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] doc: Document frequency and volume limits on patches.
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:47:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3837048.otsE0voPBg@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250305013351.2209789-1-aconole@redhat.com>

Hello,

05/03/2025 02:33, Aaron Conole:
> The DPDK project has two constrained resources - reviewers and
> public CI infrastructure.  These are shared among the entire
> project, and there are true costs associated with using these
> resources.  Thus, there are two motivations behind this change:
>   - Encourage developers to spend more time ensuring their
>     changes are in a state that things have gone through some
>     basic testing
>   - Encourage people to give reviews by guaranteeing that the
>     time between series is long enough that comments will be
>     valid.

Thanks for trying to improve our process.

> We want to document the guidelines for submitting to the list
> to encourage more time for reviews, and also encourage
> developers to spend a bit more time to put their submissions
> in a 'default accept' condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> ---
> +Frequency and volume of patches
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Please allow at least 24 hours to pass between posting patch revisions.
> +This ensures reviewers from different geographical regions have time to
> +provide feedback.
> +Additionally, please do not wait too long (read: weeks) between revisions
> +as this makes it harder for reviewers and maintainers to recall the context
> +of the previous posting.

Should we recommend to ping after a week of inactivity?

> +
> +Please do not post new revisions without addressing all feedback.
> +Make sure that all outstanding items have been addressed before posting a new
> +revision for review.

Should we remind to reply to all feedbacks?

> +Do not post a new version of a patch while there is ongoing discussion unless
> +a reviewer has specifically requested it.
> +
> +Do not post your patches to the list in lieu of running tests.
> +**YOU MUST ENSURE** that your patches are ready by testing them locally before

Should we be more precise about "testing them locally"?
Or recommend minimal testing like 1 compilation target with unit test or DTS?

> +posting to the mailing list.
> +The infrastructure running the tests is a shared resource among all developers
> +on the project, and many frequent reposts will result in delays for all
> +developers.
> +We do our best to include CI and self-test infrastructure that can be used on
> +an individual developer basis.

This self test infra should be explained a bit more.

> +
> +Your changes are expected to pass on an x86/x86-64 linux system.

This can be moved above with "local test" recommendation.

> +
> +Keep all patch sets to a reasonable length.
> +Too many or too large patches and series can quickly become very difficult
> +for a reasonable review.

To be clear, you recommend to split patches and series appropriately.

Thanks again.
I would love reading more comments and feedbacks about this.



      reply	other threads:[~2025-03-19 16:47 UTC|newest]

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2025-03-05  1:33 Aaron Conole
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