+1 I think it would be good to start as the RM of a minor release to better understand the role as a RM.
Kind regards, Wei On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 11:55, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > Hi João, > > Glad to hear about your interests and I will fully support your effort to > release manage the next major release 4.20. > > In fact you can also help us with 4.18.2.0 maintenance release which will > be relatively low-effort release and in doing so you can learn the > logistics of release management and access to Github and CI/CD (including > BO), learning how to update websites (project and docs) and pre/post > release work on a low-effort basis. > > I like your proposed timeline, for 4.20, free by end of May, would allow > 4-5 months of development work. And I think that would be beneficial for > the community to have two major releases in a year, with 4.20 release in > end ~H1 '24, possibly a 4.21 in end ~H2 '24. > > I've jotted my notes on becoming a release manager here, that could help > you: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BDRAFT%5D+How+to+Become+a+CloudStack+Release+Manager > (I welcome any/all PMCs to review this) > > > Recently, I had also written my thoughts on growing in the community > generally: (again, PMCs are welcome to review this - for now these are just > my thoughts) > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BDRAFT%5D+How+to+Become+a+Committer > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BDRAFT%5D+How+to+Become+a+PMC+Member > > > Regards. > > ________________________________ > From: João Jandre Paraquetti <j...@scclouds.com.br> > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 17:57 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: 4.20 plans > > Hello all, > > We have quite a few new interesting features prepared for 4.20; there's > the log4j PR, that we plan on merging as soon as 4.19 is released. We > also have a few big PRs to be opened for 4.20: > - Refactoring of the quota UI; > - New feature to allow users to create custom UI themes and apply them > to domains, user accounts, and internet DNS themes that are used to > access the ACS MS; > - Differential volume snapshots/backups for KVM; > - And some more extensions that we are preparing here. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose myself as the release manager of > 4.20.0.0, if none objects. I'd be guided by Daniel, who has recently > been added to the PMC; any others who are willing to help would be > welcome too. Here's the rough schedule I propose: > > - On the third week of May, we freeze the main branch. That means any > feature must be in by the second week of May. Only accept > critical/blocker issues until June. > - As early as possible in June, cut 4.20.0.0 RC1 and further RCs if > necessary, start/conclude vote, and finish release work. > > Best regards, > João Jandre > > On 12/5/23 13:18, Daan Hoogland wrote: > > devs, > > > > Other than we all have great new plans for integrations and other > > features for 4.20 and we have about 300 issues to solve, There are > > some platform issues that need addressing. So far I can think of > > - the outstanding logging PR > > - java 11 is out of support and we'll need to support a higher version > > > > I think we must address these as soon as we have a release. > > Are there any other issues to address? > > > > > >
