[openstack-dev] Why do we drop branches? (WAS: Re: Targeting icehouse-eol?)

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Thu Jun 4 16:15:09 UTC 2015


On 2015-06-04 16:23:12 +0200 (+0200), Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> Why do we even drop stable branches? If anything, it introduces
> unneeded problems to those who have their scripts/cookbooks set to
> chase those branches. They would need to switch to eol tag. Why not
> just leaving them sitting there, marked read only?
> 
> It becomes especially important now that we say that stable HEAD *is*
> a stable release.

It's doable, but we'll need ACL changes applied to every project
participating in this release model to reject new change submissions
and prevent anyone from approving them on every branch which reaches
its EOL date. These ACLs will also grow longer and longer over time
as we need to add new sections for each EOL branch.

Also, it seems to me like a "feature" if downstream consumers have
to take notice and explicitly adjust their tooling to intentionally
continue deploying a release for which we no longer provide support
and security updates.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley



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