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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Monty Taylor wrote:
>> At the moment, the only people with permission to upload tags is the
>> openstack-release team. However, since we're letting client libs manage
>> their own versions, I kinda think we should give PTLs the right on their
>> own project - so Vish would get tag access to python-novaclient, Brian
>> to python-glanceclient, etc.
> 
> Ideally it would be a two-side approval process (PTL +
> openstack-release), because openstack-release shouldn't be able to tag
> without PTL approval, and openstack-release should still be kept in the
> loop before a tag is pushed by PTLs (there are multiple reasons why a
> few hours delay before tagging would be a good idea, and the
> openstack-release people actually keep track of those).
> 
> That said, we don't have that approval mechanism available yet (same
> issue with the core projects release tagging) so in the mean time we
> should probably let the small set of individuals with an understanding
> of the issues (PTLs + openstack-release) have the power to do it. Within
> that group, we can have a soft two-side approval process (based on IRC
> pings) to check "everything is OK" before triggering a release.

Could we use gerrit's 2-step approval like we do for other projects and combine it with a fancy tag detector like was just added for DocImpact?

Doug