[openstack-dev] [tc] naming N and O releases nowish

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Thu Oct 8 11:53:54 UTC 2015


On 10/08/2015 06:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:57:59PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Sean Dague wrote:
>>> We're starting to make plans for the next cycle. Long term plans are
>>> getting made for details that would happen in one or two cycles.
>>>
>>> As we already have the locations for the N and O summits I think we
>>> should do the naming polls now and have names we can use for this
>>> planning instead of letters. It's pretty minor but it doesn't seem like
>>> there is any real reason to wait and have everyone come up with working
>>> names that turn out to be confusing later.
>>
>> That sounds fair. However the release naming process currently states[1]:
>>
>> """
>> The process to chose the name for a release begins once the location of
>> the design summit of the release to be named is announced and no sooner
>> than the opening of development of the previous release.
>> """
>>
>> ...which if I read it correctly means we could pick N now, but not O. We
>> might want to change that (again) first.
> 
> Since changing the naming process may take non-negligible time, could
> we parallelize, so we can at least press ahead with picking a name for
> N asap which is permitted by current rules.

Agreed. I believe that Monty and Jim signed up for shepherding this
after the last naming rules change. I've added it to the TC agenda for
next week to kickstart the process.

	-Sean

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