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Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2015-11-09 17:41:53 +0100:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A few cycles ago we set up the Release Cycle Management team which was a
> bit of a frankenteam of the things I happened to be leading: release
> management, stable branch maintenance and vulnerability management.
> While you could argue that there was some overlap between those
> functions (as in, "all these things need to be released") logic was not
> the primary reason they were put together.
> 
> When the Security Team was created, the VMT was spinned out of the
> Release Cycle Management team and joined there. Now I think we should
> spin out stable branch maintenance as well:
> 
> * A good chunk of the stable team work used to be stable point release
> management, but as of stable/liberty this is now done by the release
> management team and triggered by the project-specific stable maintenance
> teams, so there is no more overlap in tooling used there
> 
> * Following the kilo reform, the stable team is now focused on defining
> and enforcing a common stable branch policy[1], rather than approving
> every patch. Being more visible and having more dedicated members can
> only help in that very specific mission
> 
> * The release team is now headed by Doug Hellmann, who is focused on
> release management and does not have the history I had with stable
> branch policy. So it might be the right moment to refocus release
> management solely on release management and get the stable team its own
> leadership
> 
> * Empowering that team to make its own decisions, giving it more
> visibility and recognition will hopefully lead to more resources being
> dedicated to it
> 
> * If the team expands, it could finally own stable branch health and
> gate fixing. If that ends up all falling under the same roof, that team
> could make decisions on support timeframes as well, since it will be the
> primary resource to make that work
> 
> So.. good idea ? bad idea ? What do current stable-maint-core[2] members
> think of that ? Who thinks they could step up to lead that team ?
> 
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/530,members
> 

+1

Doug