[Rust-VMM] Project gate keeping

Samuel Ortiz samuel.ortiz at intel.com
Tue Jun 11 05:07:37 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:25:07PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/06/19 10:23, Florescu, Andreea wrote:
> > I prefer having two approvals either from code owners or gatekeepers
> > when there are no code owners. Merging a PR with only one review
> > should be an exception from my point of view. More often than not 2
> > different people looking at the code will find different bugs or
> > other issues (lack of tests, documentation, others?).
> > 
> > GitHub allows administrators to merge PRs even though there are not 2
> > reviews, so we can merge PRs with one review if needed, but I think
> > we should have 2 reviewers as the rule.
> 
> My fear is that the second review will, more often than not, be a
> "drive-by" review where X gave a positive review so Y just clicks
> approve and merge---especially if the second review has to be from a
> gatekeeper that may not be that much in touch with the code.
> 
> So I have no particular qualms with requiring two reviews, but I'd
> rather not require a separate gatekeeper "super-review" and instead
> allow 2 code owner reviews when there are 2 code owners.
That sounds reasonable to me. 2 code owners reviews when there are at
least 2 of them, otherwise 1+1 or 0+2.
It's also good to have gate keepers to be able to help with the review
if for some reason one of the code owners is MIA.

Cheers,
Samuel.
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