requirements/doc/source/contributor/contributing.rst

So You Want to Contribute...

For general information on contributing to OpenStack, please check out the contributor guide to get started. It covers all the basics that are common to all OpenStack projects: the accounts you need, the basics of interacting with our Gerrit review system, how we communicate as a community, etc.

Below will cover the more project specific information you need to get started with openstack/requirements.

Communication

We are on the #openstack-requirements channel on the OFTC IRC network.

Our meetings are currently Wednesdays at 2030 UTC. See the official meeting for up to date info.

Contacting the Core Team

On IRC the nicks of our core team are as follows.

• dirk
• smcginnis
• prometheanfire

New Feature Planning

New features should have a bug associated with it and be discussed during the weekly meeting (see below for how to report a bug and above for meeting info.)

Task Tracking

We track our tasks in Storyboard.

If you're looking for some smaller, easier work item to pick up and get started on, comment in IRC and we'll find something.

Reporting a Bug

If you have found an issue and want to make sure we are aware of it, please report the issue on Storyboard.

Getting Your Patch Merged

Updates proposed to by the infra-bot to master only need one core reviewer to approve and merge.

All other updates require two reviewers to merge.

Project Team Lead Duties

Openstack Freeze Process

Notice

• Email the developer mailing list approximately two weeks before the freeze. This email should contain a notice that requirements will branch and cycle-trailing projects should be careful if they have not branched. The cycle-trailing projects can retarget their constraints usage to the stable branch.

Branch

• File a review in openstack/releases with -W and only remove the -W when ready to branch.
• Once branched, change the publish location to the new release branch.
• Once branched, update devstack grenade for the new release. For example, use https://review.openstack.org/#/c/493057/13/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh

Potential issues

• Use something like https://review.openstack.org/#/c/492382 to find problem projects.

All common PTL duties are enumerated in the PTL guide.