On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, Dan Sneddon <dsneddon@redhat.com> wrote:
Thanks for making the announcement. Can you clarify how the feature-freeze dates will be communicated to the greater community of contributors?

if you mean tripleo contributors then in the usual manner i.e. this mailing list, the IRC meeting etc

if you mean the other openstack projects then that hasnt really ever applied since tripleo always has trailed the openstack release.

the main thing this buys us is the ability to skip creating a particular branch (assuming we go ahead... for example not creating stable/Y when that time comes) or creating it *much* later than the trailing release model allows us which is 6 months if i recall correctly. In which case again feature freeze wouldnt apply since that stable branch would already have been created by the openstack projects

regards , marios






 

- Dan Sneddon

On Jun 8, 2021, at 8:21 AM, Wesley Hayutin <whayutin@redhat.com> wrote:



Greetings TripleO community!


At the most recent TripleO community meetings we have discussed formally changing the OpenStack release model for TripleO [1].  The previous released projects can be found here [2]. TripleO has previously released with release-type[‘trailing’, ‘cycle-with-intermediary’].


To quote the release model doc:

‘Trailing deliverables trail the release, so they cannot, by definition, be independent. They need to pick between cycle-with-rc or cycle-with-intermediary models.’


We are proposing to update the release-model to ‘independent’.  This would give the TripleO community more flexibility in when we choose to cut a release.  In turn this would mean less backporting, less upstream and 3rd party resources used by potentially some future releases.


To quote the release model doc:

‘Some projects opt to completely bypass the 6-month cycle and release independently. For example, that is the case of projects that support the development infrastructure. The “independent” model describes such projects.’


The discussion here is to merely inform the greater community with regards to the proposal and conversations regarding the release model.  This thread is NOT meant to discuss previous releases or their supported status, merely changing the release model here [3]



[0] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tripleo-meeting-items

[1]  https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html

[2] https://releases.openstack.org/teams/tripleo.html

[3] https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/xena




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