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Sorry if touch 3rd rail.
But should backport bug fixes to older releases be done in distros and not upstream?

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter A. Boring IV [mailto:walter.boring at hpe.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 12:34 PM
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Cinder] [stable] [all] Changing stable policy for drivers

On 08/08/2016 02:28 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> Duncan Thomas wrote:
>
>> On 8 August 2016 at 21:12, Matthew Treinish
>> wrote:
>> Ignoring all that, this is also contrary to how we perform testing in
>> OpenStack.
>> We don't turn off entire classes of testing we have so we can land
>> patches, that's just a recipe for disaster.
>>
>> But is it more of a disaster (for the consumers) than zero testing,
>> zero review, scattered around the internet
>> if-you're-lucky-with-a-good-wind you'll maybe get the right patch
>> set? Because that's where we are right now, and vendors, distributors
>> and the cinder core team are all saying it's a disaster.
>
> If consumers rely on upstream releases, then they are expected to
> migrate to newer releases after EOL, not switch to a random branch on
> the internet. If they rely on some commercial product, then they
> usually have an extended period of support and certification for their
> drivers, so it's not a problem for them.
>
> Ihar
This is entirely unrealistic. Force customers to upgrade. Good luck
explaining to a bank that in order to get their cinder driver fix in, they have to upgrade their entire OpenStack deployment. Real world customers simply will balk at this all day long.

Walt
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