Hi Ayal, On 03/09/2013 10:31 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
General advice based on my experience with oVirt: * I recommend a 6 month cadence with ~4 months feature development and ~2 months release preparation
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* Make regular point releases (alpha, beta 1, beta 2, RC1, whatever they're called) before and after a release. I'm looking forward to 3.2.1!
if we have a 6 month release cycle, do you envision 1-2 point releases? e.g. 3.2.1 2 months after 3.2 and 3.2.2 2 months after that and then after another couple of months 3.3?
I was thinking we could lower the cost of making a point release to the point where we could have a release every month... like this: February: 3.2.0 released March: 3.2.1 released - contains fixes for important issues discovered post-release in 3.2.0 - in the meantime, feature proposal and prioritisation (and development) continues on the trunk April: 3.2.2 released - only if there are significant bug fixes or new translations May: 3.3.alpha1 released - in-progress work, contains some early features, aimed for testing to identify features that need additional work early. Release branch is made now. June: 3.3.alpha2 released - corresponds to feature freeze. At this stage, incomplete features should no longer be committed. Work can start on testing, integration testing, bug day July: 3.3.beta1 released - Corresponds to UI and string freeze - translations and docs, and release notes, should be underway already, but can hit full speed. Testing and bug fixing continues August: 3.3.0 released The only release that should take longer than a couple of hours to put out is 3.3.0 - the other releases are a tag in the source code, and a pointer to specific nightly builds. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13