Over the last couple of years, our launchpad blueprints have grown unruly [0] (~77 blueprints a few days ago). The majority of them were in "New" status, unmaintained, and several years old (some dating back to 2013). Even though we've been using specifications [1] for several years, people still get confused when they see conflicting or inaccurate blueprints. After another person tripped over a duplicate blueprint this week, cmurphy, vishakha, and I decided to devote some attention to it. We tracked the work in an etherpad [2] - so we can still find links to things. First, if you are the owner of a blueprint that was marked as "Obsolete", you should see a comment on the whiteboard that includes a reason or justification. If you'd like to continue the discussion about your feature request, please open a specification against the openstack/keystone-specs repository instead. For historical context, when we converted to specifications, we were only supposed to create blueprints for tracking the work after the specification was merged. Unfortunately, I don't think this process was ever written down, which I'm sure attributed to blueprint bloat over the years. Second, if you track work regularly using blueprints or plan on delivering something for Stein, please make sure your blueprint in Launchpad is approved and tracked to the appropriate release (this should already be done, but feel free to double check). The team doesn't plan on switching processes for feature tracking mid-release. Instead, we're going to continue tracking feature work with launchpad blueprints for the remainder of Stein. Currently, the team is leaning heavily towards using RFE bug reports for new feature work, which we can easily switch to in Train. The main reason for this switch is that bug comments are immutable with better timestamps while blueprint whiteboards are editable to anyone and not timestamped very well. We already have tooling in place to update bug reports based on commit messages and that will continue to work for RFE bug reports. Third, any existing blueprints that aren't targeted for Stein but are good ideas, should be converted to RFE bug reports. All context from the blueprint will need to be ported to the bug report. After a sufficient RFE bug report is opened, the blueprint should be marked as "Superseded" or "Obsolete" *with* a link to the newly opened bug. While this is tedious, there aren't nearly as many blueprints open now as there were a couple of days ago. If you're interested in assisting with this effort, let me know. Fourth, after moving non-Stein blueprints to RFE bugs, only Stein related blueprints should be open in launchpad. Once Stein is released, we'll go ahead disable keystone blueprints. Finally, we need to overhaul a portion of our contributor guide to include information around this process. The goal should be to make that documentation clear enough that we don't have this issue again. I plan on getting something up for review soon, but I don't have anything currently, so if someone is interested in taking a shot at writing this document, please feel free to do so. Morgan has a patch up to replace blueprint usage with RFE bugs in the specification template [3]. We can air out any comments, questions, or concerns here in the thread. Thanks, Lance [0] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone [1] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/keystone-specs/ [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/keystone-blueprint-cleanup [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/625282/