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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. (c) 2017 OPNFV Ulrich Kleber (Huawei)
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+Specific Scenarios
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+
+Specific scenarios are used for OPNFV development and help to isolate a path of development.
+
+* Specific scenarios typically focus on a feature or topic.
+* Specific scenarios allow to advance in development for their main feature without
+  de-stabilizing other features.
+* Specific scenarios provide additional flexibility in their handling to allow the
+  development be agile.
+* Specific scenarios can use new version of their main upstream component or even
+  apply midstream patches during OPNFV deployment, i.e. the deployable artifact
+  is created via cross community CI or even only in OPNFV and not upstream.
+* Specific scenarios should have a limited life time. After a few releases, the feature
+  development should have matured and the feature made available different configurations
+  if possible. Typically the scenario then should be merged with other scenarios, best
+  with generic scenarios.
+* Normally specific scenarios will be released within the major OPNFV releases. But
+  they don't need to fulfill maturity requirements (stable upstream versions and repos,
+  stability testing), and can deviate in the used upstream versions.
+* In exceptional cases we might release a specific scenario independently, in case there
+  is a need. Thus specific scenarios provide a way to a more DevOps-like process.
+* Specific scenarios will likely have a shorter support period after release as they are of
+  interest to a smaller user community vs generic scenarios.
+* They will be granted less CI resources than generic scenarios, e.g. for periodic
+  CI jobs.
+* We may need to prioritize resources post-release for maintenance / regression testing.
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