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[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Dave,

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 09:18 +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I've posted a proposal for how the stable branch could work here:
> > 
> >   http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch
> <SNIP>
>  
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Firstly, apologies for not replying to this sooner.
> 
> Next, I'd like to thank you for taking the initiative in getting this
> moving.
> 
> Generally, the whole proposal on the wiki page is pretty sane.  I do
> have two comments.
> 
> "The stable branch will only be maintained until the next release is
> out." - Does this explicitly need stating?  If contributors want to
> continue to propose changes to this for a longer term, is this a
> problem?  I see it that the branch will naturally stop being
> maintained as contributors lose interest?

I think we need to set some expectation around how long the
stable-maintainers group is likely to be willing to maintain the branch.
The "until the next release" was just my gut feeling on that.

We can easily adjust that later (or now), but I'd prefer us to say
something more than "the branch will be maintained as long as people are
interested".

> "Security patches".. This procedure needs better expansion, with how
> the stable team work with new (has it arrived yet?), security team.

Yeah.

> In addition, i've reviewed there proposals you have pushed to Gerrit..
> and jenkins seems to be doing the right thing!  It seems to be working
> \o/.

Yep, the ball is definitely rolling :)

I'll push another batch into gerrit for review later

Cheers,
Mark.