On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:37 PM Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis@gmx.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 05:44:31PM +0000, Elõd Illés wrote:

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Hi,

As it was agreed during PTG, the planned date of Extended Maintenance transition of Queens is around two weeks after Train release (a less busy period) [1]. Now that Train is released, it is a good opportunity for teams to go through the list of open and unreleased changes in Queens [2] and schedule a final release for Queens if needed. Feel free to use / edit / modify the lists (I've generated the lists for repositories which have 'follows-policy' tag). I hope this helps.

[1] https://releases.openstack.org/ [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/queens-final-release-before-em

Thanks,

Előd

Trying to amplify this.

The date for Queens to transition to Extended Maintenance is next week. Late in the week we will be proposing a patch to tag all deliverables with a "queens-em" tag. After this point, no additional releases will be allowed.

I took a quick look through our stable/queens deliverables, and there are several that look to have a sizable amount of patches landed that have not been released. Elod was super nice by including all of that for easy checking in [2] above.

As part of Extended Maintenance, bugfixes can (and should) be cherry-picked to stable/queens. But once we enter Extended Maintenance, there won't be any official releases and it will be up to downstream consumers to pick up these fixes locally as they need them.

So consider this a last call for stable/queens releases.

Thanks! Sean

Thank you Elod and Sean. In Manila, we went through the exercise of seeing if we missed out any bug fixes for stable/queens and addressed most of them. However, there's one additional fix [1] due that would be nice to get in. We hope to get that in in the next couple of days and propose a final release with that commit hash. Hope that's okay.. Thanks, Goutham [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1845135

On 10/17/2019 3:31 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:

The date for Queens to transition to Extended Maintenance is next week. Late in the week we will be proposing a patch to tag all deliverables with a "queens-em" tag. After this point, no additional releases will be allowed.

I took a quick look through our stable/queens deliverables, and there are several that look to have a sizable amount of patches landed that have not been released. Elod was super nice by including all of that for easy checking in [2] above.

As part of Extended Maintenance, bugfixes can (and should) be cherry-picked to stable/queens. But once we enter Extended Maintenance, there won't be any official releases and it will be up to downstream consumers to pick up these fixes locally as they need them.

So consider this a last call for stable/queens releases.

Nova is still working through a non-trivial backlog of backports, the main slowness being some of the stuff yet to land in queens still has to make it through stein and rocky first. I've been bugging stable cores in nova the last week or so but it's slow going. So just FYI that I'm not sure nova will be ready for the queens-em tag this week but I'm trying to get us close. -- Thanks, Matt

One final last call for stable/queens. Tomorrow I will be proposing patches to mark all deliverables as Extended Maintenance by adding a queens-em tag. After this point, there will be no more official releases for any queens deliverables. I took another quick look at unreleased commits today, and there are a few projects that still have some things that might be good to release. As mentioned though, downstream consumers can always pick these up as needed once we are past the point of doing official community releases. Some things do not need to be released. Things like CI job changes, internal documentation, and testing fixes are all good, but not something that needs to be delivered in a "release" of that project. Bug fixes, translations, requirements updates, etc., though are useful things. Thanks, Sean

The date for Queens to transition to Extended Maintenance is next week. Late in the week we will be proposing a patch to tag all deliverables with a "queens-em" tag. After this point, no additional releases will be allowed.

I took a quick look through our stable/queens deliverables, and there are several that look to have a sizable amount of patches landed that have not been released. Elod was super nice by including all of that for easy checking in [2] above.

As part of Extended Maintenance, bugfixes can (and should) be cherry-picked to stable/queens. But once we enter Extended Maintenance, there won't be any official releases and it will be up to downstream consumers to pick up these fixes locally as they need them.

So consider this a last call for stable/queens releases.

Thanks! Sean