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On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:48 AM Dan Sneddon <dsneddon at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks for making the announcement. Can you clarify how the feature-freeze
> dates will be communicated to the greater community of contributors?
>
> - Dan Sneddon
>
> On Jun 8, 2021, at 8:21 AM, Wesley Hayutin <whayutin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Greetings TripleO community!
>
> At the most recent TripleO community meetings we have discussed formally
> changing the OpenStack release model for TripleO [1].  The previous
> released projects can be found here [2]. TripleO has previously released
> with release-type[‘trailing’, ‘cycle-with-intermediary’].
>
> To quote the release model doc:
>
> ‘Trailing deliverables trail the release, so they cannot, by definition,
> be independent. They need to pick between cycle-with-rc
> <https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc>
> or cycle-with-intermediary
> <https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-intermediary>
> models.’
>
> We are proposing to update the release-model to ‘independent’.  This would
> give the TripleO community more flexibility in when we choose to cut a
> release.  In turn this would mean less backporting, less upstream and 3rd
> party resources used by potentially some future releases.
>
>
What does this change mean in terms of branches and compatibility for
OpenStack stable releases?.


> To quote the release model doc:
>
> ‘Some projects opt to completely bypass the 6-month cycle and release
> independently. For example, that is the case of projects that support the
> development infrastructure. The “independent” model describes such
> projects.’
>
> The discussion here is to merely inform the greater community with regards
> to the proposal and conversations regarding the release model.  This thread
> is NOT meant to discuss previous releases or their supported status, merely
> changing the release model here [3]
>
>
> [0] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tripleo-meeting-items
>
> [1]  https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html
>
> [2] https://releases.openstack.org/teams/tripleo.html
>
> [3]
> https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/deliverables/xena
>
>
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