Barbican/Blueprints

Blueprints
At the Juno design summit in Atlanta, the Barbican team decided to adopt a new process for creating and approving blueprints. This process is based on similar processes that many other teams have adopted for the Juno cycle. You can review the high level blueprinting process here. We are reproducing the Nova process below so as to prevent any inadvertent changes to the Barbican process if Nova decides to update theirs, but the rest of the content on the page should be useful.

Creating a Blueprint
Barbican has a team of people, led by the PTL, that are responsible for reviewing blueprints. That is the barbican-core team.

To aid the reviewing of a blueprint by a team of people, the the design specifications related to each blueprint are reviewed in Gerrit, and stored in git, just like all the code: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/barbican-specs

Starting with the Juno release, the process for getting your blueprint in Barbican is:
 * Register your blueprint in launchpad (as normal)
 * Upload a design specification in the "specs/ " folder in barbican-specs
 * e.g. http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/barbican-specs/tree/specs/kilo/name-of-your-blueprint-in-launchpad.rst
 * it should be based on the template, see the instructions in the template for more details
 * get it reviewed by submitting your patch using Gerrit, in the usual way: Development Workflow
 * For new contributors, this page may also be helpful for setting up Gerrit locally.
 * at the end of each release, non-completed specs will be removed
 * you need to re-submit for the following release, should the blueprint slip
 * Once your design specification has been committed to barbican-specs:
 * Update your blueprint's specification URL to point to the design specification in barbican-specs
 * Propose your blueprint, as above, by selecting the milestone in which you plan to complete the blueprint
 * barbican-core will approve blueprint once:
 * proposer has picked a target milestone, URL points to barbican-specs correctly, and code has been started
 * barbican-specs check there is code in gerrit, such that they think the proposed target is achievable
 * should blueprint slip to the next milestone, blueprint will be re-evaluated
 * Now everything continues as it would with any other OpenStack project

Current Launchpad blueprints for Barbican can be found here.