[nova] stable-maint is especially unhealthily RH-centric

Artom Lifshitz alifshit at redhat.com
Wed May 22 16:34:22 UTC 2019


On Tue, May 21, 2019, 16:32 Matt Riedemann, <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/21/2019 11:16 AM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> > Not Red Hat:
> > Claudiu Belu -> Inactive?
> > Matt Riedemann
> > John Garbutt
> > Matthew Treinish
>
> Sean McGinnis is on the release management team which is a (grand)parent
> group to nova-stable-maint and Sean reviews nova stable changes from
> time to time or as requested, but he's currently in the same boat as me.
>

Wait, did I miss something? We at RH were told it was business as usual
with respect to upstream community collaboration with Huawei.


> >
> > Red Hat:
> > Dan Smith
> > Lee Yarwood
> > Sylvain Bauza
> > Tony Breeds
> > Melanie Witt
> > Alan Pevec > Chuck Short
> > Flavio Percoco
>
> Alan, Chuck and Flavio are all in the parent stable-maint-core group but
> also inactive as far as I know. FWIW the most active nova stable cores
> are myself, Lee and Melanie. I ping Dan and Sylvain from time to time as
> needed on specific changes or if I'm trying to flush a branch for a
> release.
>
> > Tony Breeds
> >
> > This leaves Nova entirely dependent on Matt Riedemann, John Garbutt,
> > and Matthew Treinish to land patches in stable, which isn't a great
> > situation. With Matt R temporarily out of action that's especially
> > bad.
>
> This is a bit of an exaggeration. What you mean is that it leaves
> backports from Red Hat stuck(ish) because we want to avoid two RH cores
> from approving the backport. However, it doesn't mean 2 RH cores can't
> approve a backport from someone else, like something I backport for
> example.
>
> >
> > Looking for constructive suggestions. I'm obviously in favour of
> > relaxing the trifecta rules, but adding some non-RH stable cores also
> > seems like it would be a generally healthy thing for the project to
> > do.
>
> I've started a conversation about this within the nova-stable-maint team
> but until there are changes I think it's fair to say if you really need
> something that is backported from RH (like Lee backports something) then
> we can ping non-RH people to approve (like mtreinish or johnthetubaguy)
> or wait for me to get out of /dev/jail.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
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