On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:30:34 +0100 pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 2012-12-07 at 03:19:32 [+0100], Alexander von Gluck > <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'd like to see a fixed release cycle. (every 6 months / 1 year an > > alpha/beta is released, etc) > > I think we should not enforce that too far. 1 year for now the trunk > may be in very unstable state, or maybe in 3 month the package > management work will be ready for a release and we may want to do it > as soon as possible. Yeah, more of a 'best practice'. I'm not writing it down anywhere :) > I will (again) suggest a different strategy. We should aim for yearly > release (that sounds enough to me, every 6 month seems too fast). As > we've seen with Alpha 4, this requires some anticipation so we should > start worrying about the release long before the scheduled date. > > Here's my personal wishlist for the next release : > * IMAP fixes > * Package Manager > > Once these are in, we could almost tag the release immediately and > release it. I completely agree... those are the biggies. (especially the package management). Once those are in it may be a good time to release the first beta as we will be pretty close to 'feature complete' :) > The lifetime of the release branch should be reduced as much as > possible. This reduces the work on merging and makes most things > simpler (no need to switch the nightlies, no worry of people > continuing to work on trunk instead of testing the branch). Yup, the R1A4 cycle was *way* too long. > > > > Once these topics are discussed, I'd like to put them into a 'hard' > > pdf release guide for future release coordinators... > > I put the notes from Alpha 3 in the "release cookbook" page. Notes > from Alpha 2 are still in the "Sandbox" page, waiting for a merge. I > guess we should add more notes from Alpha 4 as well, and perhaps make > it sound less flexible as well. I've been working on the mentioned PDF.. here is the first draft: http://goo.gl/Vg7zv Thoughts? -- Alex
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