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On 24/09/14 08:56 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> I am writing to announce my candidacy for OpenStack Release Cycle
> Management PTL.
> 
> This is a little-known program, so I'll take the bi-yearly opportunity
> to explain what this covers:
> 
> 1. Release Management
> This is about coordinating the process that will turn the master
> branches of the integrated projects into a common release at the end of
> our development cycle. It's no longer a one-person job: Russell Bryant
> and Sean Dague, in particular, have stepped up during the Juno cycle to
> help me there.
> 
> 2. Stable Maintenance
> This is about maintaining stable branches, reviewing backports according
> to our Stable branch policy, and publishing point releases from time to
> time. Alan Pevec is our subteam lead there, playing the drum that keeps
> us all in sync.
> 
> 3. Vulnerability Management
> This is about handling incoming vulnerability reports and push them
> through our patching and advisory process. Tristan de Cacqueray has been
> taking on the bulk of the work there.
> 
> If I get elected, we have several challenges ahead of us for the Kilo
> cycle. In particular, we'll need to adapt our rules and processes to
> either support more projects, or follow structural changes (if any).
> 
> For example, I think the centralized stable maintenance team does not
> scale that well beyond 10 projects, and we may need to refactor it into
> team-specific stable maintenance groups. If we adopt Monty's layer #1,
> the release management team will have less work to produce the common
> release, but will need to educate and build reusable tooling for
> everyone else to be able to handle releases. These are interesting times :)
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this!
> 


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