My concern here is that the roadmap has lots of new features, and we do not want to be waiting 6 months for the next release which was due out in May
Geoff -----Original Message----- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: 14 May 2012 20:07 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] releases going forward 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 ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting services to help IT Service Providers and enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service providers and enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer without reengineering existing physical, virtual or storage layers. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
