[Development] Spring-cleaning the Gerrit dashboards, again

[Samuel Rødal]

On 03/20/2013 07:31 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Can we please agree on cleaning the dashboards up? Or, if we've agreed, can we
> do it?
>
> My dashboard is unusable. For a few months now, I have stopped my daily look
> at the "Review Requests" section. As a result, I have missed important reviews
> of new features that should maybe be in 5.1, but will probably miss the
> deadline because my comments come in too late. Tough luck if you were affected.
>
> I don't care how we're going to solve this, but can we please agree that we
> need to solve it and *do* solve it? To be frank, I really don't care if people
> feel offended that their patch that they haven't updated for 4 months gets
> "abandoned". If someone can find a better word, say so. If someone knows
> whether it's possible to create a separate state in Gerrit and this person
> *can* do it in our Gerrit installation within two weeks, say so.
>
> Otherwise, let's use the solution we know of.
>
>
> Until that happens, here's how I will operate:
>   - I will look at my "Review Requests" dashboard once a month, time-permitting
>     This does not mean I will review everything. Complex reviews will probably
>     be skipped.
>   - I will react to pings on IRC (but reserve the right to do it later)
>   - I will react to Gerrit emails that arrive while I am awake
>     When I wake up, there are about 100 unread emails in the Gerrit folder
>     alone, most of which will be ignored

Indeed, I don't either look at the dashboard these days, however I've 
found reacting to the Gerrit emails sufficient, since then I'm notified 
about the following:

- new changes that I need to review
- comments on existing changes
- changes failing in CI
- changes being merged, so that I can close the task

I'm guessing part of the reason for the large amount of traffic (100 
unread emails as you say) atm is that an auto-test failure will send one 
mail for each task you're subscribed to that's in the progress of being 
staged.

--
Samuel