From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Loic Dachary Subject: Re: Keeping up with the backports Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:44:13 +0100 Message-ID: <550AEECD.1000201@dachary.org> References: <550AE0D9.8080107@dachary.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XhUkg24Q8RSBRQ0J7Ff9wbVDopUEEwkLu" Return-path: Received: from mail2.dachary.org ([91.121.57.175]:32782 "EHLO smtp.dmail.dachary.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbbCSPoQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:44:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrey Korolyov Cc: Ceph Development This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --XhUkg24Q8RSBRQ0J7Ff9wbVDopUEEwkLu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Andrey, On 19/03/2015 15:53, Andrey Korolyov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Loic Dachary wrote:= >> Hi Alistair & Jean-Charles, >> >> Thanks a lot for volunteering to work on the backports ! >> >> I have good news: the backlog of backports is almost empty. New backpo= rts are being added every day and we are going to make sure they are hand= led on a weekly basis so that point releases can be published every month= or so, if needed. To start small and learn as we make progress, I propos= e to mentor you on a given point release, starting with cherry-picking ba= ckports and preparing an integration branch as described at http://tracke= r.ceph.com/projects/ceph-releases/wiki/Wiki (which is linked from the htt= p://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph-releases/ landing page). The idea is t= hat once you feel confortable you can keep going on your own. >> >> If you agree we can arrange an IRC meeting next week to bootstrap that= =2E Since we have multiple stable releases in flight at any given time, i= t can conveniently be parallelized. If that's ok with you, Alistair could= start with Firefly and Jean-Charles with Dumpling. >> >> Please let me know if you have any question :-) >> >> Cheers >> -- >> Lo=C3=AFc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hi Loic, >=20 > Sage said recently that dumpling will be a less likely target to > receive backports in a near future, was the point changed since then? Dumpling was published about 18 month ago and that was its expected life = time. Therefore, yes, in theory Dumpling 0.67.12 ( http://tracker.ceph.co= m/issues/10560 ) is likely to be the last point release. It's however the= first LTS to reach "end of life" and I guess we may have another one, in= case an interesting backport shows up. > Or Dumpling will be still maintained but only by a community effort? If someone from the community is willing to make that commitment to Dumpl= ing, I'll help her/him as much as I can. I also think it would make sense= for the Ceph project to provide the technical infrastructure for that, b= ut it's not a discussion we had yet. For instance say there are 15 intere= sting patches pending for Firefly in three years from now. The teuthology= /package building/release publishing machinery for Firefly could be saved= somewhere for the benefit of someone willing to revive them and publish = a new Firefly version.=20 It could be argued that it does not make sense to keep going after the en= d of life of a stable release. But it's not true in some cases, as can be= seen for instance with qemu where a some release are packaged on so many= patches that it looks like a new release. I guess Ceph will be facing th= at kind of challenges in the near future. Cheers > Thanks! >=20 --=20 Lo=C3=AFc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre --XhUkg24Q8RSBRQ0J7Ff9wbVDopUEEwkLu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUK7s0ACgkQ8dLMyEl6F21ZCACffrFeQdIL2+/kKRIYlQ+TXhjq QbMAniADMF/XQsD4SMKOxqvja9JakzVI =ONBG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XhUkg24Q8RSBRQ0J7Ff9wbVDopUEEwkLu--