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> On 25 Nov 2016, at 15:23, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 11:02, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 09:25, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 25 Nov 2016, at 05:26, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> the plan is to revert ocata-specific changes after branching newton.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> can't we create the tag after the revert?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> No, that’s release team requirement that they branch on a release tag.
>>> 
>>> ok, i didn't know the requirement. thank you.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.)
>>> 
>>> in that case, can we backport the features?
>>> (namely qos and lbaas drivers are in my mind)
>> 
>> 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.

Neutron does not override global policies. I explicitly asked during the last summit if we can branch before a tag; the answer was no, it’s not an option.

Adding [release] tag since it becomes a matter beyond neutron.

Ihar