Re: [DISCUSS] Release Deadlines

2020-12-22 Thread Matthias J. Sax
Seems this discussion died, and I would like to restart it. With 2.7.0 being released, we should consider this change for the 2.8.0 release plan. Given that 2.7.0 was delayed by 6 weeks, I believe that the proposed changed would help us to ship releases more timely. -Matthias On 9/30/20 10:20 P

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Deadlines

2020-09-30 Thread Matthias J. Sax
I added one week between KIP freeze and feature freeze as my observation was that we tend to vote some last minutes KIPs and than rush the implementation within one week. Having two weeks to implement last minute KIPs should lead the a more stable release branch when we cut it after feature freeze,

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Deadlines

2020-09-30 Thread Ismael Juma
Thanks for proposing this Matthias. A couple of questions: 1. How did you decide where to increase the time? 2. Do you think there's a risk that having more time won't necessarily help, we will just try to fit more things? I've seen that happen in similar circumstances. Ismael On Tue, Sep 29, 20

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Deadlines

2020-09-30 Thread John Roesler
Thanks for this, Matthias! I’m in favor. I’m glad we have all been working hard to stabilize our releases and offer a high quality project, even if it means delays. However, the last several releases have demonstrated that we consistently need more time than we have allocated. Rather than risk

[DISCUSS] Release Deadlines

2020-09-29 Thread Matthias J. Sax
Hi, when we introduced time based releases, we added certain deadlines to streamline the release process and to make sure we can ship the release on time. Based on early experience, we adjusted those deadlines and introduced new deadlines which improved the situation. However, we still have the i