This is a good idea. Let's try it out. I volunteer.
If we have less volunteers at first we could have a longer rota, like every 4 months instead of 3, etc. To get started. - Michelle > On Aug 16, 2017, at 2:55 AM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to consider moving us to a regular every-3-months release > cycle. Under this plan the next CouchDB release would be on or > around 1 November 2017. The next few releases would be around 1 > February 2018, 1 May 2018, and 1 Aug 2018 again. > > The recently achieved "clean test suite" milestone will allow us > to achieve a better release quality, and should enable this faster > pace of releases. It should be a lot easier to cut a release, > knowing it is clean - I am hoping that others can help here. > Perhaps we can set up a 4-way rota for releases; if I could get 3 > more committers to volunteer, we'd each only have to run 1 release > a year! > > We would still accelerate any point releases required for security > over and above this, and we would skip any releases where we > simply have nothing to commit (in which case I'd be nervous about > the future of the project!) > > This isn't a vote, but feel free to +1/0/-1 with comments if it > makes it easier for you to respond. > > -Joan
