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As the person who has asked for stable branch merge permission before, I
felt the pain and I totally agree with mnaser's proposal.

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Best regards,
Lingxian Kong
Catalyst Cloud


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:03 AM Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 6:16 AM Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I am still finding difficult to understand the change and how it will
> solve the current problem.
> > >
> > > The current problem is:
> > > * Fewer contributors in the stable-maintenance team (core stable team
> and project side stable team)
> > >   which is nothing but we have fewer contributors who understand the
> stable policies.
> > >
> > > * The stable policies are not the problem so we will stick with
> current stable policies across all the projects.
> > >   Stable policies have to be maintained at single place for
> consistency in backports across projects.
> > > [...]
> > I don't think that this the problem this change wants to solve.
> >
> > Currently the stable-core team is perceived as a bottleneck to getting
> > more people into project-specific stable teams, or keeping those teams
> > membership up to date. As a result stable maintenance is still seen in
> > some teams as an alien thing, rather than an integral team duty.
> >
> > I suspect that by getting out of the badge-granting game, stable-core
> > could focus more on stable policy definition and education, and review
> > how well or bad each team does on the stable front. Because reviewing
> > backports for stable branch suitability is just one part of doing stable
> > branch right -- the other is to actively backport relevant patches.
> >
> > Personally, the main reason I support this change is that we have too
> > much "ask for permission" things in OpenStack today, something that was
> > driven by a code-review-for-everything culture. So the more we can
> > remove the need to ask for permission to do some work, the better.
>
> For context, I thought I'd gather my thoughts to explain the idea best and
> woke up to this well summarized email by Thierry.  I agree with this and
> the
> intention is indeed what Thierry is mentioning here.
>
> > --
> > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> >
>
>
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