Hi Suresh, Great enthusiasm and good job putting the below email together.
Since we are still VOTE'ing on 0.2 and since there are limited mentor cycles (and developer cycles), do you think we should try and push for a 0.3 release so quickly (even before the 0.2 release has been made?). If so, and you have the energy, I'll try and help but you may want to wait and see how 0.2 goes because there are steps (some which take 48hrs+ after a successful VOTE) that need to be done to finalize the release. Cheers, Chris On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:01 AM, Suresh Marru wrote: > Hi All, > > While we working through release semantics on the 0.2-incubating-snapshot > branch, the trunk moved quite significantly. Great job from every one in > marching ahead. I think we are in a good position for an immediate > 0.3-incubating release. Any thoughts or objections to this plan? > > I see the following feature additions since 0.2 is branched in december: > > * Grid submissions to supercomputers are now working for basic applications. > * Registry and workflow launching now have cool API's so web interfaces can > be built against. > * User interface have been improved but this looks like work in progress. > * Workflows now have For-Each iterative support, looks like there are open > tickets on this issues, but workable within this week. > * Registry is now persisting state information from workflow launches and > progress > * Workflows have provenance aware capabilities so the execution begins from > the mid workflow where data is available. > > Please add/modify to the list, but I see these are significant improvements > mandating a release. I propose the following release preparation for 0.3: > * Since there are enough features already call a feature freeze immediately. > * Wrap up any changes to these features, test document and make a code freeze > by Friday 02/10 > * Make a release over next weekend. > > This plan assumes the current voting 0.2 release goes through. If we find > blockers in 0.2, I still suggest to stick to 0.3 release plan, branch it and > let the trunk move forward. I am getting bothered with trunk advancing too > much without a release. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Suresh ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
