[Starlingx-discuss] [Release] r/stx.2.0 cherrypicking & rc build for maintenance release

[Khalil, Ghada]

Hello all,
The release team is looking to have a candidate build for the stx.2.0 maintenance release (stx.2.0.1) on 2019-09-25 evening ET. Sanity and automated regression are planned starting 2019-09-26.

This is a reminder for developers fixing stx.2.0 gating bugs to:
- Merge the fix in master first
- Wait for a green sanity on master (w/ load including the fix)
- Optional: wait for soak or follow-up on targeted testing on master. This is left to the discretion of the developer depending on the complexity/risk of the code change.
- Cherry-pick the fix to r/stx.2.0 (manual cherry-picking may be required due to the repo restructuring in master)

If you have a fix ready (or close), please plan to cherry-pick it before 2019-09-25. 

References:
- stx.2.0 branch: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/projects:+starlingx+branch:r/stx.2.0
- stx.2.0 open gating bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bugs?field.tag=stx.2.0 
- stx.2.0 fixed bugs that need to be cherry-picked: (as of 2019-09-19)
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1817936 
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1830736 


Regards,
Ghada
On behalf of the release team