Thierry Carrez discusses the coordination and leadership challenges involved in producing OpenStack releases from Icehouse to Juno. Key changes included introducing a dependency freeze for Juno, extending stable branch support to 15 months, simplifying development milestone publications, and improving vulnerability management processes and tooling.

1. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Release Cycle Management
From Icehouse to Juno
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
Icehouse
New weekly meeting format
Introduced dependency freeze
3 Havana stable releases, Grizzly EOL
85 vulnerability reports, 25 OSSAs
Clearer “Affected” versions

4. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Juno release schedule
Feature freeze (FF): Sep. 4, 2014
Dependency freeze on FF day
Final Juno release date: Oct. 16, 2014

5. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Release management
Simplify dev milestones publication
Adopt named pre-release branches
1:1 sync points extended to incubated

6. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Stable branch
Support extended to 15 months
Acceptance rules: use exceptions
Chuck Short joins Adam and Alan

7. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Stable branch release schedule
2014.1.2 on Aug. 7, 2014
2013.2.4 – last Havana, mid Sep. 2014
2014.1.3 on Oct. 2, 2014
2014.1.4 - last Icehouse, date TBD

8. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez)
Release management PTL
Vulnerability management
Clarify security-supported repositories
Work on incident types
Work on vulnerability metrics
Official OSSA publication on website
Improved tooling

9. Coordination and
Leadership challenges
in producing OpenStack
thierry@openstack.org
http://fnords.wordpress.com
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