Excerpts from Philipp Wollermann's message of Thu Apr 05 17:16:29 -0700 2012: > On Apr 5, 2012, at 18:47, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > Philipp Wollermann wrote: > >> am I right, that the official packages of openstack (nova) for Ubuntu > >> 11.10 (oneiric) were never updated to Diablo 2011.3.1 and no bug-fixes > >> from after the initial release were ever included? > >> I checked the change log of the nova packages, and it seems like the > >> maintainers only fixed security issues. > > > > The stable/diablo branches, and the resulting 2011.3.1 release, are a > > cross-distro effort to maintain a stable version of past releases. Each > > distribution of OpenStack follows its own rules on what patches it > > backports, in the case of Ubuntu itself, it follows: > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > > Thank you for the explanation. I understand that some users would rather live > with known unfixed bugs than the risk of introducing new ones through a fix > and that this is the way Ubuntu handles updates to packages. > > However, I was wondering, because nova is already part of the SRU process, > yet the latest version of nova in ubuntu-proposed is hanging in this state > since 4 months. Even if it ever gets released to ubuntu-updates, it's > probably outdated again. > > It's totally acceptable if Ubuntu chooses to handle their packages like this, > providing a very stable and reliable base system - though as it is also the > primary and kind of "official" platform for OpenStack deployments, I think it > would be greatly appreciated if there would be an officially maintained PPA > which contains the most up-to-date stable release of OpenStack for the latest > version(s) of Ubuntu. > Then, users themselves could choose whether to trust and track the official > releases or stick to Ubuntu's releases. >
As a member of the team that reviews these updates, I've suggested that OpenStack's components be given a micro-release exception. These are pretty normal for projects with the level of active QA that OpenStack receives, and the policies around the stable branch are 100% compatible with that. The Ubuntu tech board response to this was that its a good idea, but that we should first push a few of these versions through with the usual process which involves verifying *every* bug fix. That is where the oneiric-proposed nova package is at right now.. awaiting verification. You can see on the "SRU report" for Ubuntu that nova has quite a few fixes to verify: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html I think even if this version does not progress to oneiric-updates, we've proven that the micro-release exception is needed, and thus far, no regressions have appeared. So, I'm hopeful that Essex will be granted a full micro release exception for 12.04 and we can ship those updates on a periodic basis. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
