On 2015-06-09 10:55:55 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > That's far from being in place. Also, while we are removing point > releases, and support for Icehouse, we still don't have a common private > Gerrit for security, which we've been told about 2 years ago. > > Removing collaboration tools before new ones are in place is > definitively not the way to go. [...]
In the stable branch management session at the Liberty summit, the Infrastructure Team position was confirmed that we can't maintain non-supported branches in a second Gerrit any more than we can in the primary one. The idea that there might be some branch of an OpenStack project which we just give up on testing but keep available for new changes is distasteful from a quality perspective. If there is sufficient interest from distro representatives in collaborating upstream on backports to, for example, stable/icehouse then that interest needs to include the resources necessary to maintain sufficient testing upstream (as defined by the upstream community). So, I'm sorry, but don't look to an OpenStack-maintained non-public code review system as a workaround for continuing to collaborate in private on branches unsupported upstream in public. Most of the time it ends up being non-distro upstream developers (quality assurance, release management, infrastructure, vulnerability management, individual projects) who bear the majority of the responsibility for keeping testing working on those branches and we're clearly at our breaking point now trying to maintain three besides our master branch. If the interested distributions come back with teams of people to dedicate to this work, which means getting deeply embedded in the groups who currently maintain the existing testing and release management for stable branches and are currently understaffed for that effort, then we can certainly revisit the number of branches we're able to maintain in both the public and (future) embargoed security review systems. -- Jeremy Stanley
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