On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Steven Hardy <sha...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:05:00AM -0400, Pradeep Kilambi wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> As Mitaka branch was cut yesterday, I would like to request a backport >> exception to get gnocchi patches[1][2][3] into stable/mitaka. It >> should low risk feature as we decided not to set ceilometer to use >> gnocchi by default. So ceilometer would work as is and gnocchi is >> deployed along side as a new service but not used out of the box. So >> this should make upgrades pretty much a non issues as things should >> work exactly like before. If someone want to use gnocchi backend, they >> can add an env template file to override the backend. In Netwon, we'll >> flip the switch to make gnocchi the default backend. >> >> If we can please vote to agree to get this in as an exception it would >> be super useful. > > +1, provided we're able to confirm this plays nicely wrt upgrades I think > we should allow this. > > We're taking a much stricter stance re backports for stable/mitaka, but I > think this is justified for the following reasons: > > - The patches have been posted in plenty of time, but have suffered from a > lack of reviews and a lot of issues getting CI passing, were it not for > those issues this should really have landed by now. > > - The Ceilometer community have been moving towards replacing the database > dispatcher with gnocchi since kilo, and it should provide us with a > (better performing) alternative the current setup AIUI. > > Thus I think this is a case where an exception is probably justified, but > to be clear I'm generally opposed to granting exceptions for mitaka beyond > the few things we may discover in the next few days prior to the > coordinated release (in Newton I hope we can formalize this to be more > aligned with the normal feature-freeze and RC process).
+1. -- -- James Slagle -- __________________________________________________________________________ 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
