[tc][stable] Changing stable branch policy

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Mon Nov 18 22:35:50 UTC 2019


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 5:13 PM Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/18/2019 3:40 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote:
> > 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).
>
> So for a project like nova that has a separate nova-core [1] and
> nova-stable-maint team [2] where some from [2] aren't in [1], what does
> this mean? Drop [2] and just rely on [1]? That won't work for those in
> nova-core that aren't familiar enough with the stable branch guidelines
> or simply don't care to review stable branch changes, and won't work for
> those that are in nova-stable-maint but not nova-core.

Thanks for bringing this up, I think we'll slowly iron those out.

I think this can be a team-specific decision, we should have
$project-stable-maint
for every single project anyways, and the team could decide to put all
of $project-core
inside of it, or a select group of people.

> [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/admin/groups/25,members
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/admin/groups/540,members
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>



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