On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 14:12 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: > On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote: > > On 06 Dec 2011 - 21:14, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > Tim Bell wrote: > > > > I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch. > > > > The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need to have something > > > > with the appropriate bug fixes back ported. > > > > > > > > There are an increasing number of sites looking to deploy in > > > > production and cannot follow the latest development version. > > > > > > Agreed on the need, we discussed this at length during the design > > > summit. The stable branches have been established and are maintained by > > > the "OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers" team. Currently this team is > > > mostly made of distribution members (Ubuntu and Fedora/RedHat, mostly) > > > collaborating on a single branch to avoid duplication of effort. > > > > > > See: > > > https://launchpad.net/~openstack-stable-maint > > > http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch > > > > Okay, I think this mostly addresses item #4 that I wanted to add to your > > summary, Thierry. > > > > I do have the following minor concerns, though: > > > > * that wiki page's summary (intro sentence) only specifically mentions > > Diablo; I'd like to see something along the lines of "currently > > focusing on Diablo. If these processes evolve into a successful > > model, they will be applied to all future releases."
Added. > > * the discussion on the page treats this as an experiment (this is > > good!), but I'd like to see a phrase alone the lines of "if this > > experiment is successful, we will do X to ensure these processes > > become an official part of the workflow." Cleaned up the "this is an experiment" text a bit, it's gone beyond an experiment now I think. > > These are tiny things, but I think they will better set expectations and > > give more warm fuzzies to organizations thinking about deploying > > OpenStack in production environments, seeing that we're considering the > > long-term (given success of the experiment). > > > > In addition, I would like to emphasize Tim's point from earlier, though: > > it's not just packaging... Note that the stable-maint team has no involvement with upstream packaging, if that's what you're talking about. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
