Re: How can we improve the Changes Process?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-06-29 at 16:18 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > IMHO the goal of any git based workflow is to fully eliminate any/all
> > change wrangler scripts, and indeed eliminate most of the work that
> > the change wrangler has to do. "change wrangler" as a concept should
> > probably not even exist if we got the process right.
> 
> I don't think this is realistic. There are still parts of the process
> that require a human touch, e.g. considering whether the change
> proposal is just fundamentally *wrong* in some way and advising the
> submitter before it reaches FESCo, or checking in with maintainers to
> request status updates and query whether Changes should be deferred.
> (Sure, you can have automatic comments, but a human touch is
> substantially better for this). Ideally it should involve *much* less
> drudge work, and it definitely doesn't need to be a full-time job on
> its own, but I still think we should always have a designated human
> wrangler.

Yes, I'll accept that view. It is a "curator" oversight role, rather
than a fundamental mechanical part of the process.

With regards,
Daniel
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