placement and octavia added to OpenStack SRU exception

[Brian Murray]

I've replaced ubuntu-devel with ubuntu-release in my reply as that's a
better mailing list for reaching the Ubuntu SRU team.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:44:57PM -0400, Corey Bryant wrote:
> Hello SRU team,
> 
> I've formally added placement and octavia to the SRU exception list at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenStack/StableReleaseUpdates
> 
> Placement is a core service for OpenStack deployments since OpenStack Stein
> when it was extracted from Nova. It is used to track resource provider
> inventories and usages, along with different classes of resources (e.g.
> nova works closely with placement which stores RAM/disk/CPU
> inventory/usage).
> 
> Octavia is OpenStack's reference load balancer service. It evolved from
> neutron-lbaas, which is already in the exception list. Note the last
> release where neutron-lbaas is supported is OpenStack Stein.
> 
> Both of these services are already included in our regression testing.

Was the adding of these services discussed with any Ubuntu SRU team
member? I don't think the list of source packages approved by the
special case should be allowed to expand without some review.

Cheers,
--
Brian Murray