[openstack-dev] [ironic] RFC: stop using launchpad milestones and blueprints

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Thu Dec 10 11:12:30 UTC 2015


On 12/09/2015 10:58 PM, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> As you all probably know, we've switched to reno for managing release notes.
>> What it also means is that the release team has stopped managing milestones
>> for us. We have to manually open/close milestones in launchpad, if we feel
>> like. I'm a bit tired of doing it for inspector, so I'd prefer we stop it.
>> If we need to track release-critical patches, we usually do it in etherpad
>> anyway. We also have importance fields for bugs, which can be applied to
>> both important bugs and important features.
>>
>> During a quick discussion on IRC Sam mentioned that neutron also dropped
>> using blueprints for tracking features. They only use bugs with RFE tag and
>> specs. It makes a lot of sense to me to do the same, if we stop tracking
>> milestones.
>>
>> For both ironic and ironic-inspector I'd like to get your opinion on the
>> following suggestions:
>> 1. Stop tracking milestones in launchpad
>> 2. Drop existing milestones to avoid confusion
>> 3. Stop using blueprints and move all active blueprints to bugs with RFE
>> tags; request a bug URL instead of a blueprint URL in specs.
>>
>> So in the end we'll end up with bugs for tracking user requests, specs for
>> complex features and reno for tracking for went into a particular release.
>>
>> Important note: if you vote for keeping things for ironic-inspector, I may
>> ask you to volunteer in helping with them ;)
>
> We decided we're going to try this in Monday's meeting, following
> roughly the same process as Neutron:
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/policies/blueprints.html#neutron-request-for-feature-enhancements
>
> Note that as the goal here is to stop managing blueprints and milestones
> in launchpad, a couple of things will differ from the neutron process:
>
> 1) A matching blueprint will not be created; the tracking will only be
> done in the bug.
>
> 2) A milestone will not be immediately chosen for the feature
> enhancement, as we won't track milestones on launchpad.
>
> Now, some requests for volunteers. We need:
>
> 1) Someone to document this process in our developer docs.
>
> 2) Someone to update the spec template to request a bug link, instead of
> a blueprint link.
>
> 3) Someone to help move existing blueprints into RFEs.
>
> 4) Someone to point specs for incomplete work at the new RFE bugs,
> instead of the existing blueprints.
>
> I can help with some or all of these, but hope to not do all the work
> myself. :)

I'll help you with as many things as my time allows. Documentation is my 
week point, so I'll start with #2.

>
> Thanks for proposing this, Dmitry!
>
> // jim
>
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