The purpose of the stable branch and the maint team that theirry mentioned earlier is to vet patches. Are you suggesting that we need a point release system for openstack outside of relying on distros to pick release points?
Vish On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Tim Bell wrote: > > We need more than 'just' packaging.... it is using the testing, documentation > and above all care to produce *and* maintain a stable release that production > sites can rely on for 6-12 months and know that others are relying on it too. > > Who is going to make the judgement that a bug fix to the latest Essex > development branch is a valid patch for a backport to stable/diablo and does > not break production sites ? > > Diablo 2011.3 brought much functionality but also some useful points to > consider for the future as to how we organise the project. > > Tim > >> >> (4) OpenStack will accept and foster a new project, one that is not >> focused on development, but rather the distribution and it's general >> stability. This distro project will be responsible for advocating on >> behalf of various operating systems/distros/sponsoring vendors for >> bugs that affect performance and stability of OpenStack, or prevent an >> operating system from running OpenStack. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> d > > Hi > > We already have an little informal channel on freenode called > #openstack-packaging. > > Regards > chuck > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
