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Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2016-08-09 16:38:35 +1000:
> Hi all,
>     I guess this is aimed at the long term requirements team members.
> 
> The current policy for approving requirements[1] bumps contains the following text:
> 
>     Changes to update the minimum version of a library developed by the
>     OpenStack community can be approved by one reviewer, as long as the
>     constraints are correct and the tests pass.
> 
> Perhaps I'm a little risk adverse but this seems a little strange to me.  Can
> folks that know more about how this came about help me understand why that is?
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/requirements/blob/master/README.rst#for-upgrading-requirements-versions

It's limited to libraries we maintain, so that lowers the risk some. But
as Sean pointed out, it's riskier to assume the older releases continue
to work because typically a request to raise a minimum version means an
app wants to depend on a feature that appears in the newer version.

Doug