Hi Tom Re the first 6 months of backporting: "should" would be better than "may" and "will" would be best. "may' sets an expectation that looks a lot like a shrug. It's fine as a lower bound on backporting behaviour, but as an expectation setter it's pretty weak.
-- Roland Chan Aptira On 14 November 2014 19:00, Tom Fifield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ops, > > Please see below excerpt from developer ML email regarding changes to > stable branches. I think this is going to make life better :) Thanks to > those of you who participated in the discussions at the summit. > > The stable team always needs help, so if you're interested in finding > out more, you can read the full thread at > http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-dev/2014-11/msg00686.html . > > > Regards, > > > Tom > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [openstack-dev] [stable] Organizational changes to support > stable branches > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:08 +0100 > From: Thierry Carrez <[email protected]> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <[email protected]> > > ... > > 5. To set expectations right and evolve the meaning of "stable" over > time to gradually mean more "not changing", we propose to introduce > support phases for stable branches. During the first 6 months of life of > a stable branch (Phase I) any significant bug may be backported. During > the next 6 months of life of a stable branch (Phase II), only critical > issues and security fixes may be backported. After that and until end of > life (Phase III), only security fixes may be backported. That way, at > any given time, there is only one stable branch in "Phase I" support. > > 6. In order to raise awareness, all stable branch discussions will now > happen on the -dev list (with prefix [stable]). The > openstack-stable-maint list is now only used for periodic jobs reports, > and is otherwise read-only. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
