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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 11:02, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 09:25, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 05:26, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> networking-midonet doesn't have stable/newton branch yet.
>>>>>> newton jobs failures are false alarms.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> branching has been delayed because development of some futures
>>>>>> planned for newton has not been completed yet.
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>>>>>> the plan is to revert ocata-specific changes after branching newton.
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>>>>> I don’t think it’s a good idea since you will need to tag a release on branch creation, that is supposed to be compatible with next releases in that same branch.
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>>>> can't we create the tag after the revert?
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>>> No, that’s release team requirement that they branch on a release tag.
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>> ok, i didn't know the requirement. thank you.
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>>>> anyway no one think this is a good idea.
>>>> it's just an unfortunate compromise we ended up.
>>>> we are trying to make the schedule better for next release.
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>>> It would make more sense to tag on a compatible commit from the past and consider it a first stable release. (Of course it means that feature development would need to be aligned appropriately.)
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>> in that case, can we backport the features?
>> (namely qos and lbaas drivers are in my mind)
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> No, I don’t think so. Though maybe we can release an RC as the first tag in the branch and backport features before releasing a final version? I dunno, I guess you will need to talk to OpenStack release folks on how to proceed.

is it a release team matter?
i thought these were a policy inside neutron.
after all networking-midonet is release:independent.

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> Ihar