On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > 1. Since we "release" the preview, we will go through the VOTE process. 
> > What is the expected overhead on doing this monthly? (Maybe this would be 
> > coupled with the questions below.)
>
> We have to vote for every preview every month for now. We can try and see how 
> it goes.

The voting requirement does make me question the overhead as well. I'm
not sure that we can expect the number of PMC members necessary for a
valid vote to give a meaningful release review every month. That would
leave us with automated preview releases with invalid or failed
release votes, or perhaps even worse, preview-releases that have been
rubber-stamped without meaningful review. Beyond naming/accounting
details such as whether the next preview release after preview-n fails
to pass the vote threshold is a potentially confusing repeat of
preview-n or automatically becomes preview-n+1 or preview-n+0.1 or
something, a build up of failed, non-released "releases" would seem to
create its own uncertainty, friction and overhead.

Given arguendo that the span between actual releases is currently too
long and that the other extreme of an automated release after every
commit would be too short, what is the basis for monthly instead of
maybe something like bi-monthly or quarterly being the right
preview-release cadence?

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