[tc][stable] Changing stable branch policy

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Mon Nov 18 21:40:04 UTC 2019


Hi everyone,

At the PTG, the TC discussed what we can do about our stable branch
policy and there was a few different ideas put on the table, however,
something that I felt made a lot of sense was revisiting the way that
we currently apply it.

We all know that we're definitely a lot more resource limited as a
community and it's important for us to start breaking down some of
those ideas which made sense when the velocity of the project was very
high.

One of the things that used to make sense is maintaining a dedicated
stable core team across all projects.  At the current time:

1. Some projects seem to have some sort of power of their stable
branches through historical reasons
2. Some projects don't have access to merging things into stable
branches and need to rely on the stable maintenance team to do that
3. We are *really* thankful for our current stable team, but it seems
that there is a lot of work that does bottleneck other teams (and
really, stable reviews is a difficult task).

The proposal that I had was that in mind would be for us to let teams
self manage their own stable branches.  I think we've reached a point
where we can trust most of our community to be familiar with the
stable branch policy (and let teams decide for themselves what they
believe is best for the success of their own projects).

I'd like to invite the community to comment on this change, the
approach that we can take to do this (or other ideas) -- being mindful
with the limited set of resources that we have inside the community.

Thanks,
Mohammed



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