On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 04:10:09PM -0500, Eric Fried wrote: (Just catching up with this thread, post-PTO.) [...]
New proposal: How do folks feel about using the `backlog` directory again? Presumably starting with scrubbing the four specs that are in it.
Hi, I get a nagging feeling at the back of my head whenever I see specs in the "approved" directory for a given release, but they are not completed, or needs to be re-proposed for any number of good reasons. So yes, having this `specs/backlog/approved` does have a benefit (even if it is 'marginal') than "leaving things as unmerged in Gerrit", where every spec is a bland Gerrit URL, and their HTML renderings will have gotten purged. I agree with you that it gives a "crisper picture" of reality by not muddying the waters of what is actually completed. Plus it gives us a clean, rendered overview of what ideas we thought were worth pursuing (which, as Gibi noted, will be re-evaluated at the time of transition from "backlog" to "approved"). And, as you stated in the "Backlog specifications" section[2] in the README, it can act as a robust starting point for those (especially for experienced developers) who want to get involved with Nova. * * * On the topic of merging 'nova-specs' into 'nova' repo, Jeremy raised some really good points in his repsonse[2]. Unless I see his points addressed with compelling answers, I'd vote for keeping the 'nova-specs' repo separate. (I should admit that I don't know what was the original impetus for merging it into the 'nova' repo.) [1] http://logs.openstack.org/00/648800/3/check/openstack-tox-docs/e601952/html/... [2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/004314.htm... [...] -- /kashyap