Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-21 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Jun 17, 2012, at 20:48 , Paul Davis wrote: The only thing I see an issue with is the merge commit policy. You'll find quite quickly that you'll have situations that require merge commits with diff's to work properly. A traditional example is bug fixes that reach back through many

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-19 Thread Benoit Chesneau
bump. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: Devs, A few of us met in Dublin recently, and we discussed the project roadmap. Key takeaways from that meeting: 1. We'd like to

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-18 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: Devs, A few of us met in Dublin recently, and we discussed the project roadmap. Key takeaways from that meeting: 1. We'd like to proposed formal time-based releases 2. Branch and hack all you like, but if you want

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-17 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Heya, I'm in favour of the proposal. I recognise that there are a few things that need to be refined, but I think what we have is good enough to get going and refine as we go along. With QA for example, it is up to the release master to judge whether a release is good to go. If the community QA

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-17 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Jun 16, 2012, at 18:45 , Noah Slater wrote: Devs, A few of us met in Dublin recently, and we discussed the project roadmap. Key takeaways from that meeting: 1. We'd like to proposed formal time-based releases 2. Branch and hack all you like, but if you want to ship something,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-17 Thread Noah Slater
Thanks for the comments guys. Bob was in the room when this proposal was drafted (literally) but Paul is our other active release manager, so I want to wait for his review before I comment on anything in the thread. I am also interested to hear what Jason Smith thinks, and indeed, anyone else

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Davis
The only thing I see an issue with is the merge commit policy. You'll find quite quickly that you'll have situations that require merge commits with diff's to work properly. A traditional example is bug fixes that reach back through many release branches. If the RM rejects anything that's not a

[PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-16 Thread Noah Slater
Devs, A few of us met in Dublin recently, and we discussed the project roadmap. Key takeaways from that meeting: 1. We'd like to proposed formal time-based releases 2. Branch and hack all you like, but if you want to ship something, you have to submit a merge request to an active release

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-16 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: 1. We'd like to proposed formal time-based releases Love it. In fact, I think I proposed it before. I think this will be a much better way of making CouchDB administration easy. Details of these proposals can be found

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-16 Thread Martin Hewitt
This is an excellent idea, more predictability is always a Good Thing, regardless of how big each release is. Being able to schedule downtime for upgrades on a predictable schedule is a massive tick. Martin Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Saturday, 16 June 2012 at

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official roadmap, and merge procedure

2012-06-16 Thread Marco Monteiro
On 16 June 2012 17:45, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: 1. We'd like to proposed formal time-based releases http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Roadmap_Process This is a big improvement, but... :) If the QA is good enough, it would be a little better to have feature releases every month