| mnasiadka | Hello - is there an option for a project to totally opt-out from unmaintained branches? | 06:29 |
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| frickler | mnasiadka: that's a question for the TC really, but iiuc with the current policy the answer is "no", because unmaintained branches are not in scope for the project team to care about | 06:43 |
| mnasiadka | Yes, but if the project team does not do backports to unmaintained branches, it defeats it’s purpose | 06:45 |
| mnasiadka | But I rest my case, I close my eyes and filter out unmaintained branches :) | 06:45 |
| frickler | I think it would be possible to amend the policy accordingly, but you'd have to be explicit about what happens when the "unmaintained" team still does want branches to exist for such a project | 06:48 |
| opendevreview | Kamil Sambor proposed openstack/releases master: Release futurist 3.5.0 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/1000699 | 08:34 |
| fungi | mnasiadka: the whole point is that project teams don't do backports to unmaintained branches, either other people volunteer to do that or the branches go eol | 12:56 |
| mnasiadka | fungi: just wanted to make things simple, but it seems the official statement is “we let it rot, unless there’s a volunteer that wants to make it work” | 12:57 |
| fungi | as it stands right now, when a slurp stable branch reaches end of maintenance it's replaced by an unmaintained branch. if there are no volunteers to care for that branch (and all unmaintained branches newer than it) then the branch is tagged eol and deleted in ~6 months | 12:58 |
| fungi | at least that's how it's designed to work, if those steps aren't happening it's usually because of gaps in process | 12:58 |
| fungi | i originally argued that stable branches should go eol immediately if there are no volunteers, rather than transitioning to unmaintained where they'll rot for 6 months, but my view was unpopular | 13:00 |
| fungi | but also as a community we have a tendency to offer volunteering opportunities even when we know it's unlikely anybody will take them, and also a lot of people who feel compelled to volunteer for tasks they don't have time for (i'm as guilty of that as anyone else, i'm sure) | 13:02 |
| JayF | I think applying blinders if you don't care about unmaintained/ is the move. | 14:22 |
| JayF | We even get asks in Ironic for people looking for branches so old they aren't even UM | 14:22 |
| JayF | in many cases, I think folks just want a place to collaborate without investing the time/effort in keeping CI alive in the interim | 14:22 |
| fungi | yes, basically a place to share backports with other people who want them, in order to reduce duplication of effort | 14:26 |
| opendevreview | Andriy Kurilin proposed openstack/releases master: Release Rally 5.1.0 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/1000490 | 14:39 |
| opendevreview | Andriy Kurilin proposed openstack/releases master: Release Rally 5.1.0 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/1000490 | 14:40 |
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