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On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Whaley, Graham <graham.whaley at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> 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).
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> This week's gatekeeper is .... myself :-)
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This is really a good idea. Thanks for bringing it up! Count me in! We
really could use some dedicated forces to push forward long running
issues/PRs.

And let's not abuse gatekeeper(TM) for it. "review team" and "PR
Shepherd" both sound good to me.

Cheers,
Tao

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