[Pulp-dev] Pulp Code Owners

[Daniel Alley]

+1. My understanding is that this will not directly limit who can review or
merge code, but should streamline the review process by notifying relevant
parties?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:29 PM, David Davis <daviddavis at redhat.com> wrote:

> We have come up with initial proposal of how to use code owners feature in
> Pulp. Feedback on the initial proposal below is welcome. I will try to
> collect the feedback and open a PUP by the end of the week. Thanks!
>
>
> # Problem Statement
>
> For Pulp's review process, there are several areas we could improve:
>
> 1. It’s not always clear who should review files. Over time we have
> developed subject matter experts for different areas of the codebase, but
> these are not codified anywhere. It would be useful for us to define teams
> need to review projects using code owners.
>
> 2. PRs go unnoticed. Github has a request-review feature, but only members
> of the github organization can click 'request review' button. It would be
> great if when a PR is opened people automatically received PR review
> requests.
>
>
> # Team Examples
>
> Functional Tests - The QE Team should be code owners of functional tests
> that test core or core-maintained plugins
> The Tasking System  - bmbouter, daviddavis, and dalley are the SME in this
> area
>
>
> # Solution
>
> 1. Configure the code-owners feature of Github (
> https://blog.github.com/2017-07-06-introducing-code-owners/). It will
> allow a team of 2 or more people to be notified and asked for review when a
> PR modifies a file within a certain area of the code.
>
> 2. Require code-owner review to merge. This is described in this section:
> https://blog.github.com/2017-07-06-introducing-code-owners/#
> an-extra-layer-of-code-security
>
>
> # Process
>
> The code owner role is not related to the commit bit. It's designed to get
> better reviews. Well reviewed work can be confidently merged by anyone with
> the commit bit.
>
> To make a change to code owners, open a PR with the changes, and call for
> a lazy consensus vote by mailing list. Similar to the PUP decision making
> process, voting must be open for 10 days, and the committers of the
> respective repository are voting.
>
> The code owners file itself should be owned by the core committers of the
> repository.
>
>
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