[openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility

Tim Bell Tim.Bell at cern.ch
Tue Jan 7 17:34:34 UTC 2014


+1 from me too.... UpgradeImpact is a much better term.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 January 2014 17:53
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] minimum review period for functional changes that break backwards compatibility
> 
> On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 11:04 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Matt Riedemann wrote:
> > > There is discussion in this thread about "wouldn't it be nice to
> > > have a tag on commits for changes that impact upgrades?".  There is.
> > >
> > > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-October/0166
> > > 19.html
> > >
> > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Including_external
> > > _references
> > >
> > > Here is an example of a patch going through the gate now with
> > > UpgradeImpact:
> > >
> > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62815/
> >
> > The good thing about "UpgradeImpact" is that it's less subjective than
> > "OpsImpact", and I think it catches what matters:
> > backward-incompatible changes, upgrades needing manual intervention
> > (or smart workarounds in packaging), etc.
> >
> > Additional benefit is that it's relevant for more than just the "ops"
> > population: packagers and the release notes writers also need to track
> > those.
> 
> +1 for UpgradeImpact
> 
> -jay
> 
> 
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