[openstack-dev] [all][tc] Stabilization cycles: Elaborating on the idea to move it forward

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Mon Jan 25 19:04:18 UTC 2016


On 25/01/16 18:19 +0100, Ghe Rivero wrote:
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>
>Quoting Flavio Percoco (2016-01-25 16:06:36)
>> On 20/01/16 13:23 -0430, Flavio Percoco wrote:
>> >Thoughts? Feedback?
>>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the feedback. Great comments and proposals in the many replies.
>> I've gone through the whole thread and collected the most common feedback.
>> Here's the summary:
>>
>> - The general idea of planning some sort of stabilization for a project is good
>>   but considering a cycle for it is terrible. It'd be easier if development
>>   cycles would be shorter but the 6-month based development cycles don't allow
>>   for planning this properly.
>>
>> - Therefore, milestones are more likely to be good for this but there has to be
>>   a good plan. What will happen with on-going features? How does a project
>>   decide what to merge or not? Is it really going to help with reviews/bugs
>>   backlog? or would this just increase the bakclog?
>
>There is still a option about having a sorter development cycle. As Thierry
>said in a previous message in this thread:
>
>"It is not entirely impossible that due to
>events organization we'll accidentally have a shorter cycle (say, 4
>months instead of 6) in the future here and there. I could totally see
>projects take advantage of such a short cycle to place a "stabilization
>cycle" or another limited-feature-addition period."
>
>Would be nice to have more info about it. I guess if he mentioned it, it's
>because they foundation already faced that possibility.

Sure but I'd leave that for a separate thread.
Flavio

>Ghe Rivero
>
>
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>> - We shouldn't need any governance resolution/reference for this. Perhaps a
>>   chapter/section on the project team guide should do it.
>>
>> - As other changes in the commuity, it'd be awesome to get feedback from a
>>   project doing this before we start encouraging other projects to do the same.
>>
>>
>> I'll work on adding something to the project team guide that covers the above
>> points.
>>
>> did I miss something? Anything else that we should add and or consider?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Flavio
>>
>> --
>> @flaper87
>> Flavio Percoco
>>
>>
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