On 01/21/2016 02:38 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > That said, I'd like to see a different release cadence for cycles that are > "stabilization cycles". We, as a community, are not using minor version > numbers. During a stabilization cycle, I would like to see master be > released around the 3 milestones as X.1.0, X.2.0, X.3.0. If we work that > way, then we'll be able to avoid having to backport a lot of work to the > X.0 series and while we could support X.0 series with specific backports, > it would avoid stressing our already small stable teams.
Hi Ian, In which way what you're proposing above is different from what we currently have (ie: beta 1, 2 and 3)? FYI, even though I often skip the beta 1 (because I'm still working on the previous stable), I always release beta 2 and 3 as pre-releases for everyone to test. These are uploaded to Debian experimental (well, when the next stable Debian isn't frozen...), plus non-official backport repositories for stable Debian and Ubuntu. I'd very much welcome more people to consume that, but I haven't receive much feedback from it. > My release > strategy, however, may cause more stress for downstream packages > though. It'll cause them to have to decide what and when to package > and to be far more aware of each project's current development cycle. > I'm not sure that's positive. I'm not sure why you're saying this (as I probably didn't understand your release idea), but what I can tell: don't count on downstream distribution to double guess project statuses. It's simply impossible, unless we spend a great amount of time communicating with each project, which currently can't happen given the current staffing (which I know is scarce on all downstream distros, including: Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu and Suse). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
