[tc][stable] Changing stable branch policy

Ben Nemec openstack at nemebean.com
Mon Nov 18 22:35:31 UTC 2019



On 11/18/19 4:08 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 11/18/2019 3:40 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote:
>> The proposal that I had was that in mind would be for us to let teams
>> self manage their own stable branches.  I think we've reached a point
>> where we can trust most of our community to be familiar with the
>> stable branch policy (and let teams decide for themselves what they
>> believe is best for the success of their own projects).
> 
> So for a project like nova that has a separate nova-core [1] and 
> nova-stable-maint team [2] where some from [2] aren't in [1], what does 
> this mean? Drop [2] and just rely on [1]? That won't work for those in 
> nova-core that aren't familiar enough with the stable branch guidelines 
> or simply don't care to review stable branch changes, and won't work for 
> those that are in nova-stable-maint but not nova-core.

I believe the proposal is to allow the Nova team to manage 
nova-stable-maint in the same way they do nova-core, not to force anyone 
to drop their stable-maint team entirely.

> 
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/admin/groups/25,members
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/admin/groups/540,members
> 



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