On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:48 AM 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?

- 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.

What does this change mean in terms of branches and compatibility for OpenStack stable releases?.

as i wrote to Dan just now the main thing is that we may delay or even skip a particular branch. For compatibility I guess it means we would have to rely on git tags so perhaps making consistently frequent (eg monthly? or more?) releases for all the tripleo repos. You could then call a particular range of tags as being compatible with stable/Y for example. Does it sound sane/doable from an rdo package build perspective?

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