Excerpts from David Moreau Simard's message of 2016-03-24 16:56:55 -0400: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Doug Hellmann <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote: > > Let's turn the question around: Why do you (or anyone) want to > > package things that are not tagged as releasable by the contributors > > creating them? What are those packages used for? > > I know Ubuntu provides similar trunk repositories [1] but I'll reply > to this specific bit from the RDO perspective. > > TL;DR: > It's a lot of work to package OpenStack and we can't realistically > ship quickly if we only start working once a stable release is done. > Consumers (end users and deployment projects) of RDO packages have the > same need - to keep up with trunk to do a stable release ASAP. > > The long version: > RDO is first and foremost a community packaging effort of OpenStack > for Red Hat based distributions. > > There are two main reasons why we keep up with trunk for packages > throughout the whole cycle:
[good reasoning snipped] OK, the reasons for having trunk packages built from untagged commits make sense. As a consumer of those packages, how do I indicate that I want Liberty vs. Mitaka vs. master? [more snipped] > At the risk of tooting my own horn a bit here, I went a bit more in > depth into how RDO keeps up with trunk in a talk I've done recently > [3] if you're interested. Thanks, I'll put that in my watch queue. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev