[openstack-dev] [barbican][oslo][release][requirements] FFE request for castellan

Ben Nemec openstack at nemebean.com
Tue Aug 21 19:00:41 UTC 2018


Because castellan is in global-requirements, we need an FFE from 
requirements too.  Can someone from the requirements team respond to the 
review?  Thanks.

On 08/16/2018 04:34 PM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> The backport has merged and I've proposed the release here: 
> https://review.openstack.org/592746
> 
> On 08/15/2018 11:58 AM, Ade Lee wrote:
>> Done.
>>
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/592154/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ade
>>
>> On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 09:20 -0500, Ben Nemec wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/14/2018 01:56 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
>>>>> On 08/10/2018 10:15 AM, Ade Lee wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to request a feature freeze exception to get the
>>>>>> following
>>>>>> change in for castellan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/575800/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This extends the functionality of the vault backend to provide
>>>>>> previously uninmplemented functionality, so it should not break
>>>>>> anyone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The castellan vault plugin is used behind barbican in the
>>>>>> barbican-
>>>>>> vault plugin.  We'd like to get this change into Rocky so that
>>>>>> we can
>>>>>> release Barbican with complete functionality on this backend
>>>>>> (along
>>>>>> with a complete set of passing functional tests).
>>>>>
>>>>> This does seem fairly low risk since it's just implementing a
>>>>> function that
>>>>> previously raised a NotImplemented exception.  However, with it
>>>>> being so
>>>>> late in the cycle I think we need the release team's input on
>>>>> whether this
>>>>> is possible.  Most of the release FFE's I've seen have been for
>>>>> critical
>>>>> bugs, not actual new features.  I've added that tag to this
>>>>> thread so
>>>>> hopefully they can weigh in.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As far as releases go, this should be fine. If this doesn't affect
>>>> any other
>>>> projects and would just be a late merging feature, as long as the
>>>> castellan
>>>> team has considered the risk of adding code so late and is
>>>> comfortable with
>>>> that, this is OK.
>>>>
>>>> Castellan follows the cycle-with-intermediary release model, so the
>>>> final Rocky
>>>> release just needs to be done by next Thursday. I do see the
>>>> stable/rocky
>>>> branch has already been created for this repo, so it would need to
>>>> merge to
>>>> master first (technically stein), then get cherry-picked to
>>>> stable/rocky.
>>>
>>> Okay, sounds good.  It's already merged to master so we're good
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Ade, can you get the backport proposed?
>>>
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