On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:37:07AM -0400, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Luigi Toscano <ltosc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 15:31:50 CEST Pavlo Shchelokovskyy wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> lately I realized that docs for two of the features I was working on during
> >> Newton cycle are absent from Ironic's new install guide [0]. This is my
> >> fault, and I am sorry for missing that out. Currently I am working on
> >> adding those pieces.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> Given the above, should those doc amendments be proposed as backports to
> >> stable/newton once they are merged in master? What is the general policy
> >> for backporting documentation amendments/fixes?
> >
> > The general rules are:
> > http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html
> >
> > "Note - It’s nevertheless allowed to backport fixes for other bugs if their
> > safety can be easily proved. For example, documentation fixes, debug log
> > message typo corrections, test only changes, patches that enhance test
> > coverage, configuration file content fixes can apply to all supported
> > branches. For those types of backports, stable maintainers will decide on 
> > case
> > by case basis. "
> >
> > I would consider "missing documentation for a(n important) feature" as a 
> > bug,
> > and I would try to backport it - at least for the project I'm involved in
> > (Sahara).
> 
> +1, ironic has been okay with backporting docs changes for a while
> now. Do it! :)

Yup.  The policy is about minimising the rick of regressions in running clouds.
I'm fine with backporting docs changes.  Feel free to add me as a reviewer
(from a policy POV)

Yours Tony.

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