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

Sergey Lukjanov slukjanov at mirantis.com
Tue Jul 29 14:18:51 UTC 2014


+1, it sounds like the best approach for such situation.

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 11:38 AM, Thierry Carrez 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprints
>> [2] https://review.openstack.org/108041
>>
>
> Sounds like a very reasonable solution to the problem you discussed in
> the weekly project meeting.  +1
>
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> Russell Bryant
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-- 
Sincerely yours,
Sergey Lukjanov
Sahara Technical Lead
(OpenStack Data Processing)
Principal Software Engineer
Mirantis Inc.



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