This document discusses challenges in coordinating the production of OpenStack and proposed changes to address those challenges. It describes reforming the project structure to recognize more projects as part of OpenStack if they help with the mission. It also discusses establishing a single OpenStack Security Team portal and moving away from integrated releases to a larger collection of coordinated projects. The Liberty development cycle will use a 6-month time-based model with three interim releases before the final Liberty release in October 2015.

1. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Release Cycle Management
From Kilo to Liberty
Thierry Carrez
Release Cycle Management PTL

2. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Release Cycle Management ?
Integrated Release management
Stable branch maintenance
Vulnerability management

3. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Release Cycle Management
Integrated Release management
Stable branch maintenance
Vulnerability management

4. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Project structure reform
Big tent
Recognize projects as part of “OpenStack” is they help with the
OpenStack Mission and are developed in the OpenStack Way
Tags
Provide clearer information about projects in the big tent, do not
use the “integrated release” as the magic single answer

5. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
New OpenStack Security Team
OSSG + VMT = Security
Single portal at security.openstack.org

6. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
No more « integrated release »
A larger collection of projects
Still an (opt-in) coordinated release
Refine process & tools, more self-service
A development cycle to bind them all

7. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Liberty release tracking
Switch from predicting to reporting
Replace 1:1 sync points with Office hours
New status.openstack.org/release

8. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Liberty release management
Support intermediary releases
Separate versioning for components
Streamline library release process
Expand release management team

9. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Liberty development cycle
Liberty release date: October 15, 2015
6-month time-based cycle
liberty-1: June 24th
liberty-2: July 30th
liberty-3: September 3rd
(Feature freeze)
Release candidates
Independent releases
(as-needed)
Last “liberty” release

10. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Stable branches
One per development cycle
Single stable branch policy
No more stable point releases ?
Juno: supported until Liberty release
Kilo: 9 months, unless we fix the world

11. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
thierry@openstack.org
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