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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> currently we have a single neutron-wide stable-maint gerrit group that
> maintains all stable branches for all stadium subprojects. I believe
> that in lots of cases it would be better to have subproject members to
> run their own stable maintenance programs, leaving
> neutron-stable-maint folks to help them in non-obvious cases, and to
> periodically validate that project wide stable policies are still honore
> d.
>
> I suggest we open gate to creating subproject stable-maint teams where
> current neutron-stable-maint members feel those subprojects are ready
> for that and can be trusted to apply stable branch policies in
> consistent way.
>
> Note that I don't suggest we grant those new permissions completely
> automatically. If neutron-stable-maint team does not feel safe to give
> out those permissions to some stable branches, their feeling should be
> respected.
>
> I believe it will be beneficial both for subprojects that would be
> able to iterate on backports in more efficient way; as well as for
> neutron-stable-maint members who are often busy with other stuff, and
> often times are not the best candidates to validate technical validity
> of backports in random stadium projects anyway. It would also be in
> line with general 'open by default' attitude we seem to embrace in
> Neutron.
>
> If we decide it's the way to go, there are alternatives on how we
> implement it. For example, we can grant those subproject teams all
> permissions to merge patches; or we can leave +W votes to
> neutron-stable-maint group.
>
> I vote for opening the gates, *and* for granting +W votes where
> projects showed reasonable quality of proposed backports before; and
> leaving +W to neutron-stable-maint in those rare cases where history
> showed backports could get more attention and safety considerations
> [with expectation that those subprojects will eventually own +W votes
> as well, once quality concerns are cleared].
>
> If we indeed decide to bootstrap subproject stable-maint teams, I
> volunteer to reach the candidate teams for them to decide on initial
> lists of stable-maint members, and walk them thru stable policies.
>
> Comments?
>
+1


>
> Ihar
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