[ovirt-devel] [RFC] reconsidering branching out ovirt-4.2

[Martin Perina]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
wrote:

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> 2018-01-29 11:01 GMT+01:00 Tal Nisan <tnisan at redhat.com>:
>
>> For alignment purposes between the projects we should consider branch
>> ovirt-engine as well.
>> At this point in time I'm for it, would like to hear any acks/nacks so we
>> can decide how we proceeed
>>
>>
> Nothing against branching, ack on my side
>

​+1 from me

Eli, could you please start preparing patch which will bump master to 4.3
(db, dc/cluster level ...)?​



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>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > It is time again to reconsider branching out the 4.2 stable branch.
>>> >
>>> > So far we decided to *not* branch out, and we are taking tags for ovirt
>>> > 4.2 releases from master branch.
>>> >
>>> > This means we are merging safe and/or stabilization patches only in
>>> master.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I think it is time to reconsider this decision and branch out for 4.2,
>>> > because of two reasons:
>>> >
>>> > 1. it sends a clearer signal that 4.2 is going in stabilization mode
>>> >
>>> > 2. we have requests from virt team, which wants to start working on the
>>> > next cycle features.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > If we decide to branch out, I'd start the new branch on monday,
>>> February
>>> > 5 (1 week from now).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The discussion is open, please share your acks/nacks for branching out,
>>> > and for the branching date.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I for myself I'm inclined to branch out, so if noone chimes in (!!)
>>> I'll
>>> > execute the above plan.
>>>
>>> For network we don't see a lot of pending 4.2 work - except for the
>>> requirement to support el7.5. On the other hand, we too have already a
>>> patch for 4.3. Thus I'm fine with branching next week.
>>>
>>> When you do branch, please make sure to follow Barak Korren's request on
>>> the
>>>     [ovirt-devel] [ACTION-REQUIRED] Making accurate CI for oVirt 4.2
>>> thread.
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