On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:34:45AM +0000, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: >> I don't see limited interest. It seems that bugs are trickling in every >> day and they are being taken up as they come in. Is there any blocker >> without any action for more than a few days? The only one I can see >> CLOUDSTACK-2463. > > Chiradeep, > > My response to Animesh was flippant and not overly helpful. You are > correct that things are being addressed. My point was more that the > community in general seems to have moved on from 4.1, yet we have not > released it yet. Bugs that have come up are taking several requests for > attention, and once there is a reply it's frequently taking several requests > to get follow ups. This is a volunteer project, so that alone isn't the > issue. I raise the question about what to do about 4.1 in the interest > of asking the rest of the community if you have, indeed, moved on and > want to focus on 4.2 instead. > > Others, > > I'm frankly surprised at how few people have responded to this thread, > given the volume of commit / merge / jira activity going on for new features. > Obviously there is lots of effort going into new feature dev, so it's not at > all like we have stopped paying attention to the project as a community > (far from it). > > As for the current state of consensus around my questions: > > * Animesh indicated a desire to keep moving on both fronts. > * Prasanna indicated his concern that changes in master are being missed > by people looking at 4.1. > * John indicated his concern about the priority conflict WRT stabilizing > 4.2 and 4.1 concurrently. > * Chiradeep - I know you replied to this thread (obviously), but I'm not > sure if I saw an answer to the questions I raised (although you make a > fair point, which I address above). > > I'm looking for more feedback one way or the other here. > > -chip
So here's my thoughts - and I apologize if this seems like a rant. The goal of the project is to release code. It's the cornerstone of much of what we do. We've done a very good job in my opinion of making CloudStack consumable by people who are comfortable hacking on the source code. We have a number of people running versions of CloudStack that have never been released yet, and doing so pretty confidently. Most of our target audience is either not comfortable doing that, or not comfortable running something in production that hasn't been blessed as a release, and doesn't have a known upgrade path. While it's not just the goal and purpose of the project to release code - it's also vital to the health and growth of our user community. Regular, timely releases are important. The 50,000 foot view of things is that there is apathy about the 4.1 release. Lots of activity is happening around feature development, but not a lot of care (even in form of opinions in these threads) given to some of the 4.1 blocker issues. Performing a release is how we show the world how awesome we are, and how awesome our software is. Writing the software, developing cool new features and never pushing it out the door is a waste - virtually no one but us will see it. The equivalent of getting dressed up for a night on the town, but never leaving the house. In short it isn't done until there is a release, and seeing large features being developed and landing while bugs that block a release take a lot of coaxing to get fixed gives a bad impression. --David
