Open Stack

On 02/24/2015 11:44 AM, Chris Dent wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
>> I was writing this mail for the past few days, but the nova thread
>> today prompted me to finish it off & send it :-)
> 
> Thanks for doing this. I think you're probably right that the current
> release cycle has many negative impacts on the development process and
> deserve at least some critical thinking if not outright changing.
> 
> Thanks especially for listing some expected questions (with answers).
> 
> One additional question I'd like to see answered in some depth is:
> Why have unified release schedules? That is, why should Nova and Glance
> or anything else release on the same schedule as any other
> OpenStack-related project?
> 
> Disentangling the release cycles might lead to stronger encapsulation
> of, and stronger contracts between, the projects. It might also lead to
> a total mess.

One reason to keep the same schedule is just sanity.  For those trying
to participate in and track several projects, having a complete lack of
schedule coordination would be maddening, IMO.

-- 
Russell Bryant