[openstack-dev] [release] Independent tag and stable branches

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Jul 26 17:48:42 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2016-07-26 10:19:22 -0500:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 03:51:19PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > Hi release team,
> > 
> > So I'm about to release Gnocchi 2.2.0. I'd expect to have a stable/2.2
> > branch. Is this going to happen? Based on the format of the YAML file,
> > I'm not sure this scenario is handled.
> 
> Note, I'm clearly note a release manager and I'm not signing anyone up for
> work, I was curious so I had a look for how this would be handled.
> 
> I think you're right the code/data in openstack/releases wouldn't handle your
> request.
> 
> Which is probably something that needs to change however it'd be bad to hold up
> your release while that integration code is being written.  In the near term I
> think it'll boil down to:
> - A release manager to run make_stable_branch.sh (from
>   openstack-infra/release-tools) to create your stable/2.2 branch
> - Using the std. release tools to tag the release.  Worst case it'd be running
>   release.sh by hand.

The tag should be done first, but otherwise this is right.

Doug



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