<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Thierry Carrez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry@openstack.org" target="_blank">thierry@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1mu" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">If you were a consumer of those and will miss them, please explain why.<br>
In particular, please let us know how consuming that version (which was<br>
only made available every n months) is significantly better than picking<br>
your preferred time and get all the current stable branch HEADs at that<br>
time.</div></blockquote></div><br>If vendor packages are used (as many folks do) they will need to weigh in before operators can really give valid feedback.</div><div class="gmail_extra">I've already heard from one vendor that they will continue to do "point-like" releases that they will support, but we probably need a more complete answer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Another issue, operators pulling from stable will just need to do a bit more diligence themselves (and this is probably appropriate.) One thing we will do in this diligence is something of tracking rate of new bugs and looking for windows of opportunity where there may be semi-quiescence.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The other issue I'm aware of is that there will essentially be no "syncing" across projects (except by the vendors). Operators using upstream will need to do a better job (ie, more burden) in making sure all of the packages work together.)</div></div>