[openstack-dev] [barbican][oslo][release] FFE request for castellan

Ben Nemec openstack at nemebean.com
Thu Aug 16 21:34:19 UTC 2018


The backport has merged and I've proposed the release here: 
https://review.openstack.org/592746

On 08/15/2018 11:58 AM, Ade Lee wrote:
> Done.
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/592154/
> 
> Thanks,
> Ade
> 
> On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 09:20 -0500, Ben Nemec wrote:
>>
>> On 08/14/2018 01:56 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
>>>> On 08/10/2018 10:15 AM, Ade Lee wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to request a feature freeze exception to get the
>>>>> following
>>>>> change in for castellan.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/575800/
>>>>>
>>>>> This extends the functionality of the vault backend to provide
>>>>> previously uninmplemented functionality, so it should not break
>>>>> anyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> The castellan vault plugin is used behind barbican in the
>>>>> barbican-
>>>>> vault plugin.  We'd like to get this change into Rocky so that
>>>>> we can
>>>>> release Barbican with complete functionality on this backend
>>>>> (along
>>>>> with a complete set of passing functional tests).
>>>>
>>>> This does seem fairly low risk since it's just implementing a
>>>> function that
>>>> previously raised a NotImplemented exception.  However, with it
>>>> being so
>>>> late in the cycle I think we need the release team's input on
>>>> whether this
>>>> is possible.  Most of the release FFE's I've seen have been for
>>>> critical
>>>> bugs, not actual new features.  I've added that tag to this
>>>> thread so
>>>> hopefully they can weigh in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As far as releases go, this should be fine. If this doesn't affect
>>> any other
>>> projects and would just be a late merging feature, as long as the
>>> castellan
>>> team has considered the risk of adding code so late and is
>>> comfortable with
>>> that, this is OK.
>>>
>>> Castellan follows the cycle-with-intermediary release model, so the
>>> final Rocky
>>> release just needs to be done by next Thursday. I do see the
>>> stable/rocky
>>> branch has already been created for this repo, so it would need to
>>> merge to
>>> master first (technically stein), then get cherry-picked to
>>> stable/rocky.
>>
>> Okay, sounds good.  It's already merged to master so we're good
>> there.
>>
>> Ade, can you get the backport proposed?
>>
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