Hugo, are you talking about having a CTP release when the feature is somewhere near ready but subject to change?
I think this is a really good idea. Publish a RTM (if we can call it that) then shortly after people can release CTP with their features in. Interested parties can then try, discuss and give feedback. This then gets rolled up into the next, or future RTM version. It could help with testing and I feel would help prevent mad dash races to squeeze stuff into the next release. I guess there would need to be some management of the whole process, but I really think it could work. Regards Alex Hitchins D: +44 1892 523 587 | S: +44 2036 030 540 | M: +44 7788 423 969 alex.hitch...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Daan Hoogland [mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 March 2014 10:06 To: Hugo Trippaers Cc: dev; Donal Lafferty Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL][Merge] Windowsfication of management server Is there a notion of silent preview (possible) in our release scheme? Maybe accompanied with a big nullification of warranty. It seems we don't have anything like 'experimental'; a class of features that maybe removed for reasons explicable to the greater public. It seems like whatever we do we will paint ourselfs in the corner while we would want to segregate between core functionality that will be supported till the foreseeable end of time and features of which we are not yet sure they are as such useful. (I should start a [DISCUSS] but i think it is very applicable to this feature.) On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Hugo Trippaers <h...@trippaers.nl> wrote: > Hey, > > 4.4 is in feature freeze, so no new features will be added. I think its fair > to debate if this is a feature in that sense. It seems like minor changes and > the addition of a few scripts, making it a simple change in my view. It would > be great to be able to announce this, but for it to be part of a release i > think we need a couple of other things to be done. The most prominent are, > packaging, testing and documentation. > > Documentation: > If we want to ship this with 4.4 and announce that CS now runs on > windows we need to have the installation manual covered at least. > > Packaging: > We can't expect our users to build it themselves on windows. So we > need some kind of packaging that people can install on their windows server. > > Testing: > We need to automagically verify that these changes aren't affected by > future changes. I would expect to see the packaging and functional tests on > starting and stopping CS on a windows host as part of the automated test > procedure. I'd be happy to work with you to set it up on Jenkins. > > > If we can fix these items before the bug fix phase i'd be +1 to include this > in the 4.4 release, but of course this is depending on the consensus in the > community. I'm just the RM, not the guy who decides what goes into a release. > > Cheers, > > Hugo > > > On 28 mrt. 2014, at 06:14, Abhinandan Prateek <abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com> > wrote: > >> It will be really nice to get the preview code for windowsfication in 4.4. >> https://reviews.apache.org/r/18964/ >> The changes are well segregated. >> >> -abhi >> >> On 28/03/14 10:26 am, "Damoder Reddy" <damoder.re...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >>> Hugo, >>> >>> Can Windowsfication be cherry-picked to 4.4 from master ? It is now >>> well reviewed and tested. Due to review process it got delayed to >>> commit to 4.4 earlier. >>> >>> Thanks & Regards >>> Damodar/ >>> >> > -- Daan Need Enterprise Grade Support for Apache CloudStack? Our CloudStack Infrastructure Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> offers the best 24/7 SLA for CloudStack Environments. 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