Added the TSC.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Abhijit Kumbhare <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Robert & Tom,
>
> Regardless of the merits of this particular change, I agree with Vishal &
> Luis that this is a failure of communication. The weather process needed to
> have been followed - with the possibility for downstream projects to not
> accept the change for legitimate reasons. Please do so in the future.
>
> The most ideal solution as suggested by Luis below & initially agreed by
> Tom would have been to back out the change, discuss it completely (in a the
> TWS call) and go ahead with the decision after the TWS call. As it stands,
> and pointed by Tom, backing out the change looks to be a daunting task.
> Since that is the case, let us do the following:
> 0) Unblock the projects by whatever means - whether it is projects merging
> the changes to accommodate the original patch or reverting
> 1) Robert, please create the weather report with the existing change
> 2)  in the meantime people can chime in on the thread and try to resolve it
> 3) we WILL continue the discussion on the Monday TWS if this is not
> resolved by Monday. Casey has this meeting scheduled in any case.
>
> Thanks,
> Abhijit
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Luis Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 7:16 AM, Tom Pantelis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Vishal Thapar <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> Could you please take a look at tell what I need to fix this breakage? I
>>> am still not sure why is such a basic code breaking like this.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps we should just revert the mdsal patch until this can get sorted
>> out downstream - maybe discuss on the TSC call today .
>>
>>
>> +1, without knowing the technical details of the change, I think we are
>> missing something fundamental in the upstream-downstream communication: in
>> general for any valid change coming from upstream breaking downstream we
>> need a weather report including explanation why the change is required and
>> some pointers on how to fix the potential failures. This gives a chance for
>> downstream projects to evaluate and accept the change as well as to prepare
>> the required patches to minimize the impact. If the breakage was
>> unintentional or unexpected (no weather fired), I think the right thing to
>> do is to revert and start over writing the weather report.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vishal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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