I think 4.9 brings some new features, enhancements and improvements that people would appreciate in a LTS release. Many of them cannot be simply backported and 2 weeks will be far shorter to identify, backport and regression-test all those changes.
From my personal experience, I've done a lot of backporting in 4.3, then did maintenance work in 4.5. I think it's still worth it to wait for few weeks to get 4.9.0 out of the door and have LTS based on 4.9.0 release. If Will is not able to find time to work on 4.9 release, maybe someone else can takeover and help with the 4.9 release by 15th July (at least get some RCs up for testing and voting)? LTS can be 4.9.1 etc. Regards. ________________________________ From: Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> Sent: 04 July 2016 15:32:45 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; John Burwell Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2016-2017 Release Cycle and Calendar > Op 4 juli 2016 om 6:57 schreef John Burwell <john.burw...@shapeblue.com>: > > > All, > > Following up on a our discussions about LTS [1], post 4.9 releases [2], and > 5.0.0/6.0.0 [3], I have assembled a release plan for the next 18-20 months in > the wiki [4]. My original proposal assumed by that 4.9 would be released by > 1 July. I have adjusted the timelines assuming that we will complete the > release by 15 July. My thinking is that the number of defect fixes present > in 4.9 and 4.8.1 would require more than 2 weeks of work to backport to a > 4.8-based LTS. Therefore, I have shifted the LTS cutoff dates from 1 Jan and > 1 July to 15 Jan and 15 July. > > Once we gain consensus on the release cycle and calendar, I will cleanup the > wiki to move completed release plans to an archive area and remove obsolete > release process documentation. > Looks good to me. It's time that 4.9 is released and shifting to July 15th looks good. Overall your release schedule proposal looks good to me, so I'd say +1 on the proposal. Wido > Thanks, > -John > > [1]: http://markmail.org/thread/zzrjldiryhy3ygfk > [2]: http://markmail.org/thread/7rv3jwz4hzf3yplf > [3]: http://markmail.org/thread/c24hvshz3z4babjb > [4]: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BPROPOSAL%5D+2016-2017+Release+Cycle+and+Calendar<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/[PROPOSAL]+2016-2017+Release+Cycle+and+Calendar> > > john.burw...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
