Hi all, I would like to open the release process of providers up for discussion. Testing and Voting needs more discussion, the other points are mostly straight-forward and had an agreement on the last dev call.
(Backport Providers won't be released after the end of this month - link <http://apache-airflow-docs.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/docs/apache-airflow/latest/upgrading-to-2.html#support-for-airflow-1-10-x-releases> so let's ignore them in conversation) *Batch vs Ad-hoc*: - Release Manager would default to releasing Providers in Batch - ad-hoc releases are OK (i.e. if there is a critical bug that needs fixing in a single provider) *Frequency:* - For Batch release, we will release *every month *(starting of the month - 1 to 7 most likely) - Just a note that it generally takes around a week for the vote to pass even though we have 72 hours minimum period *Doc-only changes* - When we have doc-only changes for Providers (during batch-release), we should still release a new version. The majority on the Dev call had agreed that releasing docs asap is good instead of waiting for the next release with a code-change. *Testing* - License and Signature Checks are mandatory (following the ASF rules) - For Providers, not all changes require strict testing -- you make a judgement based on the changes for a particular provider - Wherever possible community can help test those but not strictly necessary. *This is where more discussion is needed. * *Voting* - Automate and create separate voting threads to avoid confusions vs a single vote where we exclude the providers if someone finds a bug, let's keep the discussion for this on https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9dcc03840f478669e9bd0dc61f4088b725097da2b48ea274b7f0593e%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E Regards, Kaxil
