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On 10/9/2015 1:49 AM, Paul Carlton wrote:
>
> On 08/10/15 16:49, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2015-10-07 14:38:07 -0500:
>>> Here's why:
>>>
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/220622/
>>>
>>> That's marked as fixing an OSSA which means we'll have to backport the
>>> fix in nova but it depends on a change to strutils.mask_password in
>>> oslo.utils, which required a release and a minimum version bump in
>>> global-requirements.
>>>
>>> To backport the change in nova, we either have to:
>>>
>>> 1. Copy mask_password out of oslo.utils and add it to nova in the
>>> backport or,
>>>
>>> 2. Backport the oslo.utils change to a stable branch, release it as a
>>> patch release, bump minimum required version in stable g-r and then
>>> backport the nova change and depend on the backported oslo.utils stable
>>> release - which also makes it a dependent library version bump for any
>>> packagers/distros that have already frozen libraries for their stable
>>> releases, which is kind of not fun.
>> Bug fix releases do not generally require a minimum version bump. The
>> API hasn't changed, and there's nothing new in the library in this case,
>> so it's a documentation issue to ensure that users update to the new
>> release. All we should need to do is backport the fix to the appropriate
>> branch of oslo.utils and release a new version from that branch that is
>> compatible with the same branch of nova.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> So I'm thinking this is one of those things that should ultimately live
>>> in oslo-incubator so it can live in the respective projects. If
>>> mask_password were in oslo-incubator, we'd have just fixed and
>>> backported it there and then synced to nova on master and stable
>>> branches, no dependent library version bumps required.
>>>
>>> Plus I miss the good old days of reviewing oslo-incubator
>>> syncs...(joking of course).
>>>
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> I've been following this discussion, is there now a consensus on the way
> forward?
>
> My understanding is that Doug is suggesting back porting my oslo.utils
> change to the stable juno and kilo branches?
>

It means you'll have to backport the oslo.utils change to each stable 
branch that you also backport the nova change to, which probably goes 
back to stable/juno (so liberty->kilo->juno backports in both projects).

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann