SRU review:

Potentially breaking changes should be brought to the attention of the
SRU team. Based on a detailed review of the proposed changes, this does
not currently seem to be happening. I've (non-exhaustively) detailed the
proposed changes that bring me concern below.

This also seems to mismatch the definition of a MAAS point release in
the draft (currently on version 7) of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MAASUpdates

List of changes in behaviour to existing users that suggest to me a
backwards compatibility break:

Bug 1767137 "Default install is now importing bionic by default instead
of xenial" [this "fix" will change the current default behaviour in
stable Ubuntu releases]

Bug 1742703 "Virsh pod: autostart for created virtual machines is not
enabled"

Bug 1741165 "Deleting a machine from a KVM pod doesn't delete its disk
image"

General Feature additions:

Bug 1730751 "LACP rate fast by default"

Bug 1704501 "Can't change which fabric a vlan belongs to"

Bug 1738127 "[enhancement] MAAS doesn't have a favicon"

Bug 1739761 [adds support to deploy Precise on MAAS 2.3]

Please provide justifications for each of the changes (listed above, and
any others that I missed) that are going into this potential update to
MAAS that have the potential to break backward compatibility.  Also
please itemize new features, as is written in the MAASUpdates wiki page.

The following I note because I was expecting that this point release
contained bugfixes only (based on the definition of a point release on
your proposed SRU policy page), but also found unexpected feature
additions. I understand there is a current exception request in process,
and feature updates are expected in some cases, but those feature and
backward compatibility changes should be called out as such directly in
the SRU bug.

These Hardware enablement related feature additions also took me by
surprise since they don’t fit into the “point release” definition in the
MAASUpdates wiki page.  Shouldn’t this then be a “2.4” release (“new
upstream releases” in the document)?

Bug 1750622 "[feature] Add ability to select the BIOS boot method for
IPMI - To address issues with newer firmware"

Bug 1758760 "[enhancement] Support Lenovo’s new password policy (Lenovo
SR550)"


To move forward, please itemize the potential backward compatibility breaking 
changes in this proposed SRU, and clear up the confusion on hardware enablement 
changes coming in via a “new upstream point release” as defined in MAASUpdates.

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