[openstack-dev] [puppet] Release management and bug triage

Emilien Macchi emilien at redhat.com
Wed Mar 18 16:26:39 UTC 2015



On 03/18/2015 12:23 PM, Mathieu Gagné wrote:
> On 2015-03-17 3:22 PM, Emilien Macchi wrote:
>>
>> A first question that comes in my mind is: should we continue to manage
>> every Puppet module in a different Launchpad project? Or should we
>> migrate all modules to a single project.
> 
> I prefer multiple Launchpad projects due to the fact that each project
> assume you manage one project for every aspect, especially milestones
> management. (which is intrinsically linked to bug management)
> 
> 
>> So far this is what I think about both solutions, feel free to comment:
>>
>> "Having one project per module"
>> Pros:
>> * Really useful when having the right tools to manage Launchpad, and
>> also to manage one module as a real project.
>> * The solution scales to the number of modules we support.
>>
>> Cons:
>> * I think some people don't go on Launchpad because there is so many
>> projects (one per module), so they did not subscribe emails or don't
>> visit the page very often.
> 
> They can subscribe to the project group instead:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-puppet-modules
> 
> 
>> * Each time we create a module (it's not every day, I would say each
>> time a new OpenStack project is started), we have to repeat the process
>> for a new launchpad project.
> 
> It takes me ~2 minutes to create a project. It's not a burden at all for me.
> 
> The challenge is with release management at scale. I have a bunch of
> tools which I use to create new series, milestones and release them. So
> it's not that big of a deal.

Are you willing to share it?

> 
> 
>> "Having everything in a single project"
>> Pro:
>> * Release management could be simpler
> 
> It's not simpler, especially if you wish to associate bugs to
> milestones. You would have to assume that EVERY projects will be part of
> a very synchronized release cycle. (which isn't true)
> 
>> * A single view for all the bugs in Puppet modules
> 
> It exists already:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-puppet-modules
> 
>> * Maybe a bad idea, but we can use tags to track puppet modules issues
>> (ie: puppet-openstacklib whould be openstacklib)
> 
> I already tried using tags to track issues. The challenge is with
> versions and releases management. You cannot associate issues to
> milestones unless you make the assume that we have one single version
> for ALL our modules. So far, we had occasion where a single module was
> released instead of all of them.
> 
> 
>> Con:
>> * The solution does not scale much, it depends again at how we decide to
>> make bug triage and release management;
> 
> If we wish to be under the big tent, I think we have to have a strong
> bug triage and release management. And having only one LP project is
> going to make it difficult, not easier.

Big +1.

> 
> 

-- 
Emilien Macchi

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