Jean-Philippe Evrard 3a4ca09d11 Developer docs refactor
This refactor has the intent of guiding a new OpenStack-Ansible
user towards his first contributions.

The deploy guide is now pointing towards the Developer Guide,
but there is was no guidance given, just a series of topics.

Here, the first page of the developer guide is an onboarding
page, explaining our repos, what's inside them, and how to
contribute. It then links towards all the sections, which
had to be restructured to match a wizard-style flow.

Change-Id: Ib2a5f2063c4dc58fc249ac94c3cd85bb281f28a5
2018-04-04 19:22:49 +02:00

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.. _periodicwork:
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Periodic Work
=============
Releasing
=========
Our release schedule for stable branches is around every two weeks:
* We request an OpenStack release on the second Friday of the month
* We request an OpenStack release on the last Friday of the month
The releases take generally a few days to get "tagged" and be publicly
available.
Dependency Updates
------------------
The dependencies for OpenStack-Ansible are updated
through the use of ``scripts/sources-branch-updater.sh``. This script
updates all pinned SHA's for OpenStack services, OpenStack-Ansible roles,
and other python dependencies which are not handled by the OpenStack global
requirements management process. This script also updates the statically
held templates/files in each role to ensure that they are always up to date.
Finally, it also increments the patch version of the
``openstack_release`` variable.
The update script is used as follows:
.. parsed-literal::
# change directory to the openstack-ansible checkout
cd ~/code/openstack-ansible
# ensure that the correct branch is checked out
git checkout |current_release_git_branch_name|
# ensure that the branch is up to date
git pull
# create the local branch for the update
git checkout -b sha-update
# execute the script for all openstack services
./scripts/sources-branch-updater.sh -b |current_release_git_branch_name| -o |current_release_git_branch_name|
# execute the script for gnocchi
./scripts/sources-branch-updater.sh -s playbooks/defaults/repo_packages/gnocchi.yml -b |current_release_gnocchi_git_branch_name| -o |current_release_git_branch_name|
# the console code should only be updated when necessary for a security fix, or for the OSA master branch
./scripts/sources-branch-updater.sh -s playbooks/defaults/repo_packages/nova_consoles.yml -b master
# the testing repositories should not be updated for stable branches as the new tests
# or other changes introduced may not work for older branches
./scripts/sources-branch-updater.sh -s playbooks/defaults/repo_packages/openstack_testing.yml -b master
# commit the changes
new_version=$(awk '/^openstack_release/ {print $2}' inventory/group_vars/all/all.yml)
git add --all
git commit -a -m "Update all SHAs for ${new_version}" \
-m "This patch updates all the roles to the latest available stable
SHA's, copies the release notes from the updated roles into the
integrated repo, updates all the OpenStack Service SHA's, and
updates the appropriate python requirements pins.
# push the changes up to gerrit
git review
Development cycle checklist
===========================
On top of the normal cycle goals, a contributor can help the OpenStack-Ansible
development team by performing one of the following recurring tasks:
* By milestone 1:
* Community goal acknowledgement.
* By milestone 2:
* Handle deprecations from upstream project's previous cycle.
* Handle OpenStack-Ansible roles deprecations from the previous cycle.
* Refresh static elements in roles. For example, update a specific version of
the software packages.
* Bump ``ceph_stable_release`` to latest Ceph LTS release in the integrated
OpenStack-Ansible repo, and inside the ``ceph_client`` role defaults.
* Check and bump galera versions if required.
* Check and bump rabbitmq versions if required.
* Check outstanding reviews and move to merge or abandon them if no longer
valid.
* By milestone 3:
* Implement features
* After milestone 3:
* Feature freeze, bug fixes, and testing improvements
* After official project release, before official OpenStack-Ansible release:
* Bump RDO, Ubuntu Cloud Archive and openSUSE OBS OpenStack Cloud
repositories if they are ready on time.