[openstack-dev] [all] Tracking unapproved specs in milestone plans

Kyle Mestery mestery at mestery.com
Fri Jul 18 16:23:15 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> At the last cross-project/release meeting we discussed the need to track
> yet-unapproved specs in milestone release plans.
>
> There are multiple cases where the spec is not approved yet, but the
> code is almost ready, and there is a high chance that the feature will
> be included in the milestone. Currently such specs are untracked and fly
> below the radar until the spec is approved at the last minute -- this
> creates a gap between what we know might be coming up and what we
> communicate outside the project might be coming up.
>
> The simplest way to track those is to add them (with a priority) to the
> milestone plan and set the implementation status to "Blocked" (and
> design status to "Review" if you want to be fancy). If there is general
> agreement around that, I'll update the reference wiki page at [1] to
> reflect that.
>
This sounds perfectly fine to me.

> I also have a new version of spec2bp.py[2] in review that supports both
> cases (--inreview and approved) and sets blueprint fields for you.
> Please feel free to try it and report back on the review if it works or
> fails for you.
>
Excellent, thanks for the updates Thierry!

Kyle

> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprints
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/108041
>
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> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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