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Hi Graham,

I agree that this is a great idea. :) As for team names, how about something cooperative-sounding like "PR Shepherd"?

Sincerely,
Jesse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Whaley, Graham <graham.whaley at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 11:49 AM
> To: Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov>; kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io
> Subject: Re: [kata-dev] Intel Gatekeepers for Kata
> 
> Ah, that is true - we are indeed not here to block anything - in fact, hopefully
> the opposite!
> I'm open to suggestions. @anne, any ideas or precedents?
> Maybe just 'review team' will do?
> 
> (the fun link between having the Gatekeeper team and us trialling Zuul for
> our CI had not escaped me btw ;-) )
> 
> Oh, and I can't take all the credit here - a few of us started this on
> ClearContainers some time back, and EricE asked to resurrect it for Kata :-)
> 
> Graham
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fox, Kevin M [mailto:Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov]
> > Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 5:41 PM
> > To: Whaley, Graham <graham.whaley at intel.com>; kata-
> > dev at lists.katacontainers.io
> > Subject: RE: Intel Gatekeepers for Kata
> >
> > This is a great idea. Thanks for doing this. :)
> >
> > I would recommend coming up with a different term then 'gatekeeper'
> though
> > to describe it. It could have an undesired connotation in the world of
> > opensource. Just a thought.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Whaley, Graham [graham.whaley at intel.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2018 1:27 AM
> > To: kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io
> > Subject: [kata-dev] Intel Gatekeepers for Kata
> >
> > Good morning.
> > As Eric mentioned in last week's Arch call, the Kata team at Intel are trialing
> a
> > 'round robin Gatekeeper schedule' for Kata PR review. That is, each week
> one of
> > our team will prioritise reviewing and moving forwards the open PRs on the
> Kata
> > repos. This is a process we used for some time with Clear Containers.
> >
> > We are trying this out to see if we can try and reduce the pending PR list, in
> > particular some of the longer standing or more urgent PRs.
> >
> > This is by no means an Intel-only initiative :-) If you want to be on the rota
> then
> > just let me know and I'll add you into the cycle. It would be great if we can
> try
> > and get at least two nominated reviewers each week, ideally located in
> different
> > time zones.
> >
> > Note that to be a gatekeeper you don't have to understand the whole
> project,
> > or even have to be the most technical person. Being a gatekeeper is a great
> > opportunity to both get to know the project in more depth and to hone
> your
> > technical skills. Sometimes all it needs is for somebody to read the list of
> open
> > PRs and nudge a few along that have been inactive and ask the appropriate
> > domain experts if they could do a review. All volunteers welcome.
> >
> > If you are new to the project and/or PR reviews, we have a PR review
> guide
> > document that is well worth reviewing: https://github.com/kata-
> > containers/community/blob/master/PR-Review-Guide.md .
> >
> > Today we are sat with 42 open items (you can coax that info out of github
> via
> > this link: https://github.com/search?o=asc&q=org%3Akata-
> > containers+is%3Apr+is%3Aopen&s=created&type=Issues).
> >
> > This week's gatekeeper is .... myself :-)
> >
> >  Graham
> >
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