[OpenStack-docs] Fwd: [openstack-dev] [release] new change management tools and processes for stable/liberty and mitaka

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue Nov 10 14:57:07 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-10 15:29, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On 2015-11-10 08:30, Christian Berendt wrote:
>> On 11/09/2015 09:59 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>> Do we really want to add such notes back to our guides? And if we do, do
>>> we want guide specific release notes - or do we want release notes for
>>> all of documentation?
>>
>> I think it makes no sense to have guide specific release notes. But I
>> think it makes sense to have release notes for openstack-manuals
>> repository to be able to write down the overall process (contributor
>> guide added, guide xy migrated to RST, ..).
>
> What kind of tracking do we need for this?
>
> Note that we didn't do any release notes at all for Liberty:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Liberty
>
> For Kilo we did some:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo#OpenStack_Documentation
>
> Looking at those, a single "RELEASENOTES" file might be enough for
> tracking all our guides - instead of using reno which works under the
> assumption currently that we use tags for release. So, to support
> openstack-manuals, we would first need to enhance it. And we don't have
> that many new features that we get many merge conflicts.
>
> So, my proposal: Let's use reno for the tools like all OpenStack
> projects with proper releases. Let's add for openstack-manuals a single
> file that tracks release notes for all our repos (and thus revert the
> addition of reno to it). For the N cycle we can revisit this again...

Here's the implementation of that proposal:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/243631/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/243637/

I marked the first as WIP to give time for others to chime in. Feel free 
to +2/-2 already. The second is dependent on the first,

Andreas
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