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[Everett Toews <everett.toews@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for OpenStack Essex LTS + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ghe Rivero <ghe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm ok with everything so far, but from "
> http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch":
>
> *"The stable branch will only be maintained until the next release is
> out. This period may be extended if there are volunteers to maintain it
> beyond this point."*
>
> With a 6 months release cycles, it still looks a sort period of time for a
> production deployment, and some people/companies can not relay on those
> volunteers to appear to maintain it for more time.
>
>     Is there any plan (or can be proposed) to have some kind of LTS
> release? I've read some place that essex + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS can be a good
> candidate; essex is considered the first "production ready" release, but it
> will not have quantum, we are tying openstack within an specific
> distribution...  Anyway, (ubuntu12.04 + essex)^LTS looks great, and we have
> time to discuss what to do for a future "LTS" release.
>
> Ghe Rivero
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 07 Dec 2011 - 08:15, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 14:12 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> > > > On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> > > > > On 06 Dec 2011 - 21:14, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > > > > > Tim Bell wrote:
> > > > > > > I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo
>  branch.
> > > > > > > The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need to have
> something
> > > > > > > with the appropriate bug fixes back ported.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > There are an increasing number of sites looking to deploy in
> > > > > > > production and cannot follow the latest development version.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Agreed on the need, we discussed this at length during the design
> > > > > > summit. The stable branches have been established and are
> maintained by
> > > > > > the "OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers" team. Currently this
> team is
> > > > > > mostly made of distribution members (Ubuntu and Fedora/RedHat,
> mostly)
> > > > > > collaborating on a single branch to avoid duplication of effort.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > See:
> > > > > > https://launchpad.net/~openstack-stable-maint
> > > > > > http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch
> > > > >
> > > > > Okay, I think this mostly addresses item #4 that I wanted to add
> to your
> > > > > summary, Thierry.
> > > > >
> > > > > I do have the following minor concerns, though:
> > > > >
> > > > >  * that wiki page's summary (intro sentence) only specifically
> mentions
> > > > >    Diablo; I'd like to see something along the lines of "currently
> > > > >    focusing on Diablo. If these processes evolve into a successful
> > > > >    model, they will be applied to all future releases."
> > >
> > > Added.
> > >
> > > > >  * the discussion on the page treats this as an experiment (this is
> > > > >    good!), but I'd like to see a phrase alone the lines of "if this
> > > > >    experiment is successful, we will do X to ensure these processes
> > > > >    become an official part of the workflow."
> > >
> > > Cleaned up the "this is an experiment" text a bit, it's gone beyond an
> > > experiment now I think.
> >
> > Very cool, Mark! Thanks so much!!
> >
> > d
> >
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