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[Chuck Thier <cthier@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Chuck Thier wrote:
>
> Since we are not having the meeting this week, I would like to bring up a
> couple of things for discussion before the next meeting.
>
> 1.  We have a need at Rackspace to release cloudfiles features faster than
> openstack releases.  We would prefer to not have to keep track of a separate
> repository in order to do this.  So I would like to propose that Openstack
> allow sub-projects to release as necessary, rather than in lock step.  An
> Openstack release then would be a collection of sub-project releases that
> are tested together at that time.  So for example, for swift, the Cactus
> release may end up being something like swift 1.3.5 rather than 1.3.  I also
> see this becoming more of an issue as external projects are brought into the
> fold.
>
>
> If I remember correctly, we previously discussed each project can do
> independent releases - and openstack as a project periodically syncs up and
> says OpenStack Elephant is Swift 1.5.2, Nova 1.2.1, Glance 1.1.3, ...
>
>
It was my understanding that we talked about doing this for maintenance
releases, but I'm also proposing basically the same thing for new
feature releases as well.  Unless I am mistaken, and everyone else sees the
previous agreement to include new feature releases as well.

--
Chuck