Hi! The cycle-trailing release model is designed for OpenStack packaging / deployment / lifecycle management tools. Since those package / help deploy OpenStack, they are generally released after the OpenStack coordinated release.
The rule so far was that such projects should release exactly two weeks after the coordinated release. Feature integration and validation testing can take a lot more (or less?) time though (depending on your team staffing), and there is little value for our ecosystem in such a short and determined deadline. The release team therefore agreed to relax the rules. Such cycle-trailing deliverables can be released any time in the 3 months following the coordinated release. It should be plenty enough to complete the work, and if the work is not ready by then, you should probably be focusing on supporting the upcoming release anyway. In addition to that, we have a rule that to be included in the upcoming release, new deliverables need to be added before the milestone-2 of that release cycle. The idea is to protect packaging / deployment / lifecycle management tools teams against last-minute additions that would jeopardize their ability to deliver proper support for the upcoming release. That rule is very useful for the coordinated release components, but it is useless for the packaging/deployment tools themselves though. So we agreed to waive that rule for cycle-trailing deliverables. Since that work happens downstream from the coordinated release (and nobody else upstream is depending on it), it's OK for packaging teams added after milestone-2 to publish deliverables for that release. The end result of these changes is that it's OK for the recently-added OpenStack-Helm and LOCI teams to publish a release of their packaging recipes for Queens. We encourage them to release as soon as possible, but as long as it happens before the end of May, it would still be accepted by the release team as their "Queens" release. Please contact the release team (on the list or on #openstack-release) if you have questions about this change. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
