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On 11/3/2015 11:57 AM, Michał Dubiel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a simple patch allowing to use OpenContrail's vrouter with
> vhostuser vif types (currently only OVS has support for that). We would
> like to contribute it.
>
> However, We would like this change to land in the next maintenance
> release of Kilo. Is it possible? What should be the process for this?
> Should we prepare a blueprint and review request for the 'master' branch
> first? It is small self contained change so I believe it does not need a
> nova-spec.
>
> Regards,
> Michal
>
>
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The short answer is 'no' to backporting features to stable branches.

As the other reply said, feature changes are targeted to master.

The full stable branch policy is here:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann