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<div>Kolla operators and developers,</div>
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<div>The general consensus of the Core Reviewer team for Kolla is that we should embrace a liberal backport policy for the Liberty release. An example of liberal -> We add a new server service to Ansible, we would backport the feature to liberty. This is
in breaking with the typical OpenStack backports policy. It also creates a whole bunch more work and has potential to introduce regressions in the Liberty release.</div>
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<div>Given these realities I want to put on hold any liberal backporting until after Summit. I will schedule a fishbowl session for a backport policy discussion where we will decide as a community what type of backport policy we want. The delivery required
before we introduce any liberal backporting policy then should be a description of that backport policy discussion at Summit distilled into a RST file in our git repository.</div>
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<div>If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please chime in on the thread.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>-steve</div>
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