Geoff, I think you might be confusing previous Citrix road maps with the new processes / community here at Apache. The point of this thread is to establish the Apache CloudStack release schedule, and previous Citrix discussions on the topic don't really apply anymore.
However, I personally agree with your point about frequency being important. IMO, shorter than 6 months is ideal. -chip On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Geoff Higginbottom <geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > 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.
