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 ---- On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 03:37:05 +0900 Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote ----
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 > On Jul 15, 2019, at 6:30 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
 > Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 >  ---- On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 05:38:28 +0900 Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com> wrote ----
 >  > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 09:19:35PM +0900, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 >  > >  ---- On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:16:32 +0900 Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com> wrote ----
 >  > >  > Hi Release team,
 >  > >  >
 >  > >  > Today I noticed while doing patrole review that stable/stain has been created for patrole which is wrong.
 >  > >  > Patrole is branchless[1] and I remember I have not requested the stable branch while releasing the patrole.
 >  > >  >
 >  > >  > Is it created by mistakenly ? or intentional?
 >  > >
 >  > > I found the patch which created this - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/650173/1.
 >  > >
 >  > > Can we revert that but that patch has more changes?
 >  > >
 >  > > -gmann
 >  > >
 >  >
 >  > We can't really just revert it. If you would like to change this, please update
 >  > the patrole release type to tempest-plugin or move it to be an independent
 >  > release deliverable if it is not actually cycle based.
 >  >
 >  > You can also remove the branching information with that change, then after that
 >  > is gone and there isn't a risk of recreating it, the infra team may be able to
 >  > assist in deleting the existing branch.
 > Release model for patrole is 'cycle-with-intermediary' which is right, we do not need
 > to change that. We just need to remove the stable/stein and branch information which
 > was added for the only stein. I will push the change.
 > Can we have a tag which clearly says the branchless and no-stable branch nature for deliverables?
 > 'tempest-plugins'  was introduced for a different purpose. new tag can be applicable for other
 > deliverables also (current or in future). That can help to avoid these errrors.
 > 
 > Creating a new release model or a new deliverable type sounds a bit overkill.
 > 
 > I think the simpler would be to add a new value to the existing "stable-branch-type" key. Like "stable-branch-type: none" and then set that value for all tempest plugins, tempest itself and patrole.
 > 
 > See https://review.opendev.org/670808 as a strawman.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
 > If the project isn’t creating stable branches each cycle, how is it cycle-based? What’s wrong with moving it to use the independent release model, which was created for cases like this?

Tempest and all Tempest plugins are "cycle-with-intermediary" because we want a particular release tag per OpenStack release. That is what we decided in ML discussion while deciding the release model for tempest plugins [1]. With independent release mode, we face the issue of not having the compatible versions of all Tempest plugins which user need to run on against their production cloud. 

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-June/131837.html

 > Doug
 >