On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Radhika Puthiyetath <radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi, > > About documentation tasks, the CloudStack Techpubs is very busy with the > CloudPlatform release through November until the release is shipped out. > > The Techpubs also is attending various conferences in early December. > Considering that, we will be able to start contributing only by second week > of December. > > If you can extend the development cycle to Jan, it would be helpful for > Techpubs to properly plan and execute. >
Thanks for the input about your availability. I think the consensus is forming around a 5 month release for this first round, with 4 month releases after that. > Regards > -Radhika > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 10:42 PM > To: CloudStack DeveloperList > Subject: Re: [ASFCS41] Proposed schedule for our next release > > > > On 11/2/12 8:48 AM, "Joe Brockmeier" <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > >> >> >>One "rule" I'd like to propose, though: We shouldn't be landing any >>features without at least rudimentary documentation. > >> > +1. Also a Jira ticket so QA can close it as verified. > > I think we need criteria as to when is a feature "ready"? > We don't want half-baked features thrown in because of the rush to meet the > Freeze. > >> >>> Here's the proposed schedule: >>> >>> 2012-11-01 through 2012-12-30 >>> Feature and documentation development (obviously ongoing, but >>> continued during this period) >> >>In terms of length of feature/doc development, I think this is in line >>with other projects and (at least for me) sufficient time for >>development of the docs work I plan to work on in this cycle. >> >>In terms of actually landing on the calendar, though, I have some >>concerns. >> >>I suspect we'll lose at least one week, maybe two, at the end of the >>cycle due to holidays. We also have the collab conference which will be >>at the end of November/early December. I suspect we'll lose at least >>three or four days for many of the contributors who are attending, and >>more for those of us who are managing the conference. >> >>Having a dev cycle that ends between Christmas and New Year's is a >>little rough. >> >>Can we extend this so that (if we keep to the release dates) our >>feature development cycle is ending at the end of January instead? We'd >>end up with releases in early April, August, and December 2013 if all >>works according to plan. > > I agree. December is rough (at least in the U.S). > >
