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FYI, this work was completed. Docs are here:
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/dev/code-contribution-guide.html#adding-new-features

// jim

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:58:34PM -0800, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > As you all probably know, we've switched to reno for managing release notes.
> > What it also means is that the release team has stopped managing milestones
> > for us. We have to manually open/close milestones in launchpad, if we feel
> > like. I'm a bit tired of doing it for inspector, so I'd prefer we stop it.
> > If we need to track release-critical patches, we usually do it in etherpad
> > anyway. We also have importance fields for bugs, which can be applied to
> > both important bugs and important features.
> > 
> > During a quick discussion on IRC Sam mentioned that neutron also dropped
> > using blueprints for tracking features. They only use bugs with RFE tag and
> > specs. It makes a lot of sense to me to do the same, if we stop tracking
> > milestones.
> > 
> > For both ironic and ironic-inspector I'd like to get your opinion on the
> > following suggestions:
> > 1. Stop tracking milestones in launchpad
> > 2. Drop existing milestones to avoid confusion
> > 3. Stop using blueprints and move all active blueprints to bugs with RFE
> > tags; request a bug URL instead of a blueprint URL in specs.
> > 
> > So in the end we'll end up with bugs for tracking user requests, specs for
> > complex features and reno for tracking for went into a particular release.
> > 
> > Important note: if you vote for keeping things for ironic-inspector, I may
> > ask you to volunteer in helping with them ;)
> 
> We decided we're going to try this in Monday's meeting, following
> roughly the same process as Neutron:
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/policies/blueprints.html#neutron-request-for-feature-enhancements
> 
> Note that as the goal here is to stop managing blueprints and milestones
> in launchpad, a couple of things will differ from the neutron process:
> 
> 1) A matching blueprint will not be created; the tracking will only be
> done in the bug.
> 
> 2) A milestone will not be immediately chosen for the feature
> enhancement, as we won't track milestones on launchpad.
> 
> Now, some requests for volunteers. We need:
> 
> 1) Someone to document this process in our developer docs.
> 
> 2) Someone to update the spec template to request a bug link, instead of
> a blueprint link.
> 
> 3) Someone to help move existing blueprints into RFEs.
> 
> 4) Someone to point specs for incomplete work at the new RFE bugs,
> instead of the existing blueprints.
> 
> I can help with some or all of these, but hope to not do all the work
> myself. :)
> 
> Thanks for proposing this, Dmitry!
> 
> // jim
> 
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