review-envoy-gateway-pr

Testing & Quality

Review an Envoy Gateway pull request for essential API, implementation, status, and test coverage requirements.

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Envoy Gateway PR Review Skill

Inputs

GitHub PR URL (e.g. review PR: https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8237), or
A local diff between commits (e.g. review change: git diff 4927877a HEAD)

Output

Lead with findings ordered by severity.
Include exact file and line references.
Separate required fixes from optional follow-ups.
If there are no findings, say that clearly and mention residual test or release-note risk.

Review

Check API changes, implementation changes, feature coverage, and release notes as applicable.
Keep findings concise and actionable, with file references when possible.

Checklist

API changes

Make sure changes under api/ align with https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md
Make sure changes under api/ are consistent with existing API patterns in the Gateway API project: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/tree/main/apis
Make sure changes under api/ are consistent with existing API patterns in this project.
Try to reuse existing types.
Keep naming consistent with this project.
Try to add kubebuilder and CEL validations to catch errors.
Make sure API validations are tested in /test/cel-validation.
Check backward compatibility for API shape, CRD schema, defaults, versioned structs, and upgrade behavior.
If a PR mixes API and implementation changes, say whether it should be split into separate PRs.

Implementation changes

For changes under internal/gatewayapi, check that user-visible errors are surfaced in status.
For changes under internal/gatewayapi, check that status conditions follow the conventions in the Gateway API spec: https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/geps/gep-1364/index.html
For changes under internal/gatewayapi, check that internal/gatewayapi/testdata has coverage.
For changes under internal/xds/translator, check that internal/xds/translator/testdata has coverage.

Feature coverage

For new user-facing features, check that test/e2e has coverage.
For bug fixes, check that test/e2e has coverage if the bug is in user-facing code or has user-facing impact.

Release notes

Release notes should be added as a new fragment file under release-notes/current/<section>/<pr-number>-<slug>.md (see release-notes/current/README.md) for any of the following changes. One change per file; the section directory determines the category.

Bug fixes should be noted as "bug fix" (bug_fixes/) and include a brief description of the issue and the fix.
New features should be noted as "new feature" and include a brief description of the feature.
Any breaking changes should be noted as "breaking change" and include a clear description of the change and its impact on users.
Any change to generated Envoy config (xDS) that moves, removes, or modifies existing config content would break EnvoyPatchPolicies and Extension Servers, so it should be noted as a breaking change. Additions to generated xDS config do not need to be called out.
Existing API changes should be noted.
Existing behavior changes should be noted.