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On 5 March 2014 15:02, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> Nova is now feature frozen for the Icehouse release.  Patches for
> blueprints not already merged will need a feature freeze exception (FFE)
> to be considered for Icehouse.
>
> In addition to evaluation the request in terms of risks and benefits, I
> would like to require that every FFE be sponsored by two members of
> nova-core.  This is to ensure that there are reviewers willing to review
> the code in a timely manner so that we can exclusively focus on bug
> fixes as soon as possible.

To help avoid adding too many FFE and not getting enough bug fixing done...

I have a proposal to try and get many of the blueprints that just
missed getting into Icehouse merged in early Juno, ideally before the
Summit.

For the interested, here are blueprints that met the proposal deadline
but didn't make Icehouse-3:
* API (v2) blueprints: 8
* VMware: 7
* Scheduler blueprints: 7  (two were partially completed in Icehouse)
* Others: around another 7

Making an effort to get these merged in Juno-1, and ideally before the
summit, seems a fair thing to do.

Once Juno opens, if submitters get their blueprint patches rebased and
ready to review by two weeks before the summit, I propose we try to
give them (where possible, and where it makes sense) at least medium
priority, at least until after the summit.

If we get too many takers, that might need some "refinement". However,
looking at them, they all appear to be features that our users would
really benefit from.

This probably means, all non-"top priority" items would then get low
priority in Juno-1. Currently tasks (at least the move to conductor
parts), the scheduler split and objects, seem like they will be the
other high priority items for Juno-1.

This is all very rough, and subject to massive post-summit change, but
looking at the ones with their priority set, gives a rough idea of
what Juno-1 might look like:
https://launchpad.net/nova/+milestone/next

Its just an idea. What do you all think?

John