Hi folks, We had some chatter on private@ list regarding the approrpiateness of announcing the 3.0.2 release on the ASF-hosted lists - and that turned into a discussion of where we go from here with regards to releases with a few opinions circling on whether we should assume that it's the last release to be generated by Citrix - and when the Apache CloudStack community will assume responsibility. Matt dutifully reminded us that the discussion need not be private - and thus I am bringing that discussion here.
The concern is that there is a fairly significant amount of work to be done to generate an Apache CloudStack release - a good deal of which will be trial and error and completely new processes. By way of reference - it appears that Apache OpenOffice took about 10 months from entering incubation to pushing out a release. I think we are substantially better off with less to migrate than AOO - but nonetheless it could be a non-trivial amount of time, whereas we have historically been doing about a release a month. At the same time, pushing out a Citrix-generated CloudStack release is a pretty closed process - QA happens behind closed doors, as does decision making about dates, release criteria, and virtually everything else. It also requires a non-trivial amount of work for folks who presumably would be otherwise engaged in pushing Apache CloudStack forward. While I certainly hope that 10 (or even 6) months doesn't go by without a release, my personal inclination is to focus on Apache CloudStack - but I am but one voice - please discuss. Thoughts, comments, flames? --David
