On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:07:02PM -0800, Adam Gandelman wrote: > Last cycle, the TB granted a provisional Micro Release Exception > [1] for the OpenStack Essex core components (Nova, Glance, Horizon, > Keystone) to > help speed up the process of getting upstream stable release into > Ubuntu. Since > then, two new core components were added to the OpenStack core > during the Folsom > cycle: cinder and quantum. These made their way into the main > Ubuntu archive > for Quantal. I would like to request the cinder and quantum > packages be added > to the current MRE to facilitate quick and coordinated stable updates to > OpenStack users across all core components. > > The same quality assurances made for Nova, Glance, Horizon and > Keystone are true > for Quantum and Cinder: > > - Low-volume, bug fix only upstream branches. > - Upstream commits are required to pass per-review and numerous gating tests > before they are eligible for merging. > - The Ubuntu Server team continues its QA efforts around stable branches, > providing per-commit build and integration testing for all changes > merged into > any of the core stable branches upstream. > - As members of the OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainer team, Dave Walker and > Chuck Short continue to help keep and eye on what stable fixes > land upstream. > > To date, the existing MRE has proven to be extremely helpful in ensuring > upstream stable updates are pushed out to Ubuntu users in a timely > manner. Both > the Ubuntu Server Team and the OpenStack project have spent a great > deal of time > refining the process and tooling around stable updates. Last cycle, > were able > to push out a thoroughly tested batch update to precise-updates [2] > that closed > 74 bugs across 4 projects with no reports of regressions. At the OpenStack > Developer Summit in October, the project defined a release schedule [3] for > stable Folsom updates allowing downstreams and users to better plan, > test and > prepare accordingly. We are currently in the process of preparing > and testing > the first of these stable Folsom updates for Quantal SRU and hope to > have Cinder > and Quantum fixes pushed out alongside the others. > > Best, > Adam Gandelman > > [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.technical-board/807 > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/+bug/1041120 > [3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/process-stable-branch
I'd be in support of a provisional MRE for these two as well. Thanks, -Kees -- Kees Cook -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
