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Hi Ops,

Please see below excerpt from developer ML email regarding changes to
stable branches. I think this is going to make life better :) Thanks to
those of you who participated in the discussions at the summit.

The stable team always needs help, so if you're interested in finding
out more, you can read the full thread at
http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-dev/2014-11/msg00686.html .


Regards,


Tom


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [openstack-dev] [stable] Organizational changes to support
stable branches
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:08 +0100
From: Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>

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5. To set expectations right and evolve the meaning of "stable" over
time to gradually mean more "not changing", we propose to introduce
support phases for stable branches. During the first 6 months of life of
a stable branch (Phase I) any significant bug may be backported. During
the next 6 months of life  of a stable branch (Phase II), only critical
issues and security fixes may be backported. After that and until end of
life (Phase III), only security fixes may be backported. That way, at
any given time, there is only one stable branch in "Phase I" support.

6. In order to raise awareness, all stable branch discussions will now
happen on the -dev list (with prefix [stable]). The
openstack-stable-maint list is now only used for periodic jobs reports,
and is otherwise read-only.