We can and should revisit any rules we impose on ourselves from time to time. However, this one should not be taken lightly. And the stable branch policy applies openstack-wide. We can opt out it, of course, but let us keep in mind the implications it has for consumers that expect stable branches to be, well, stable.

Note that we don't really have a lot of asks for FFE. The one in question was not ready by the time an FFE was appropriate (i.e. on the day of FF +/- a couple of days). We have already been quite relaxed with a few patches that had been ready by the FF date (and got delayed partly because of the CI state).

Speaking of which, if we could get more help with daily things, we could free up more time to review patches. And the CI wouldn't block them from merging. Just... saying ;)

Best,
Dmitry

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:07 PM <Arkady.Kanevsky@dell.com> wrote:

Understandable.

But we have a rule that we do not backport “new” functionality.

That puts pressure on many asks for FFE.

Should we revisit that rule a bit?

 

From: Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:26 AM
To: Julia Kreger
Cc: pramchan@yahoo.com; BIN HU; alanmeadows@att.com; jgu@suse.com; openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org; rg445d@att.com; rp2723@att.com
Subject: Re: [ironic] FFE: Add idrac HW type Redfish virtual media boot interface (Ruby Loo)

 

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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 2:38 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m afraid 13.0.0 has been released which is what we targeted to release for Train.

 

Is there any reason Ironic can’t release 13.1.0 in say a month? I ask since there should be no hard requirement with Ironic in starting with the stable/train branch.

 

The reason is the stable policy. We've committed to following it, and it doesn't allow feature backports.

 

 

An important detail is Airship 2.0 slated for release. If we’re trying to co-ordinate everything across communities, that seems like it is going to be very problematic.

 

It would be ideal if such requirements could be determined a bit in advance, not later than M3.

 

Dmitry

 

 

-Julia

 

 

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 5:15 PM prakash RAMCHANDRAN <pramchan@yahoo.com> wrote:

Julia & Richard,

 

We in airship 2.0  need vIrtual media boot up for our work in remoteboot direct using Ironic redfish interface. This is to use both for Ehemeral BareMetalHost as well for target cluter BareMetal Nodes redfish based Virtual Media booting.

 

We in Airship community strongly endorse the exception to include this feature in Train.

 

I am copying few of our TC & WC members  who too can confirm my ask on behalf of Airship 2.0 team.

 

 

Thanks

Prakash Ramchandran

(pramchan)

 

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