placement and octavia added to OpenStack SRU exception

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Thu Oct 29 23:05:41 UTC 2020


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:56:37AM -0400, Corey Bryant wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:33 PM Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I probably should have posed my initial email as a request for review. The
> reason I didn't is because both of these projects evolved/split from
> existing projects that are already in the exception list (neutron-lbaas and
> nova) and we've already been doing point releases for them so it feels like
> it is just a formality to add them to the list.
> 
> Can we use this email thread as a formal discussion/review with the SRU
> team?

Sure! Adding these packages seems reasonable, are they also covered by
the Tempest smoke test target?

--
Brian Murray



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