Plan and timelines look good to me, Suresh. thanks for volunteering. I’ll be happy to get more involved with the next 4.22 release once we see some progress on this one.
Regards, Harikrishna From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti <sureshkumar.anapa...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025 at 6:17 PM To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>, users <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: [PROPOSE] RM for 4.21.0 Hi All, It's been a few months since the proposal, and we've so far closed 62 issues and PRs in the 4.21.0 milestone [1]. Currently, we've 208 open items in the 4.21.0 milestone, tracked/triaged through the GitHub project 'Apache CloudStack 4.21.0' [2]. Ping me (@sureshanaparti) on your issues and PRs that are to be included in 4.21.0, if these are not in the milestone / project. 4.21.0 release is proposed as a Regular (non-LTS) [3] release with the following timelines, aiming to start the RC/vote by the end of Jul 2025: - Now until mid-July 2025: Accept all PRs for the bug fixes, improvements, features - Until last week of Jul 2025: Accept any fixes and stabilise main/4.21 branch - Last week of Jul 2025: Cut 4.21.0 RC1 (and further RCs if necessary), start & conclude vote, and finish release work Please let me know if you have any feedback, thoughts. Looking forward to your support on bug fixes, reviews, and tests. Thanks. [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/milestone/35 [2] https://github.com/orgs/apache/projects/503 [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS Regards, Suresh On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM Suresh Kumar Anaparti < sureshanapa...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to propose and put myself forward as the release manager for 4.21.0 > if there are no objections. I've previously RM'd 4.16.1.0 & 4.19.1.0 > releases, and co-RM'd some releases before that. I hope that experiences > will help me here, for a successful release. > > I think, for 4.21.0, we can accept any features, improvements and bug > fixes in the next few months until May-2025, and aim to cut RC in Q2 2025 > (sometime in Jun-2025). Please ping me (@sureshanaparti) on GitHub, in case > you want to include any Issues/PRs in 4.21.0. I'll propose the timeline > details soon. > > I hope to have your support. Please let me know if you have any > thoughts/comments. > > Regards, > Suresh >
