@alexander, I agree that stabilizing on 1.14 will be much easier to do, than to manage the fixes while develop features move along apace. I disagree that shifting attention to 1.14 will mean that develop does not get better. We can port the fixes forward, just as easily as we backport them. Same effort, but a more-quickly-stable release branch.
-Robert From: Alexander Murmann <amurm...@vmware.com> Date: Monday, November 30, 2020 at 11:57 AM To: dev@geode.apache.org <dev@geode.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Geode 1.14 Hi all, Thanks, Owen for reminding us all of this topic! I wonder how we feel about the state of develop right now. If we cut 1.14 right now, it will make it easier to stabilize and ship it. However, I see 21 open JIRA tickets affecting 1.14.0. It might be better to have an all-hands effort to address as much as possible on develop and then cut 1.14. If we shift all attention to 1.14, develop will likely never get better. I'd love to get closer to an always shippable develop branch. That should vastly reduce future release pain and make everyday development better as well. Thoughts? ________________________________ From: Jens Deppe <jde...@vmware.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 20:11 To: dev@geode.apache.org <dev@geode.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Geode 1.14 Hi Owen, Thanks for starting this conversation and especially for volunteering as Release Manager! Since we're already a couple of quarters 'behind', in terms of releases, I'd prefer cutting the 1.14 branch ASAP. Leaving it until Feb means we'll have 9 months of changes to stabilize. How long might that take to finally get shipped? (rhetorical). --Jens On 11/25/20, 6:05 PM, "Owen Nichols" <onich...@vmware.com> wrote: The trigger in @Alexander’s July 28 proposal to postpone 1.14 has been met (we shipped 1.13). It’s time to discuss when we want to cut the 1.14 branch. I will volunteer as Release Manager. Below are all release dates since Geode adopted a time-based release cadence. Minor releases: 1.13 branch cut May 4 2020, 1.13.0 shipped Sep 9 2020 1.12 branch cut Feb 4 2020 1.12.0 shipped Mar 31 2020 1.11 branch cut Nov 4 2019 1.11.0 shipped Dec 31 2019 1.10 branch cut Aug 2 2019 1.10.0 shipped Sep 26 2019 1.9 branch cut Feb 19 2019 1.9.0 shipped Apr 24 2019 1.8 branch cut Nov 1 2018 1.8.0 shipped Dec 12 2018 Patch releases: 1.13.1 shipped Nov 18 2020 1.9.2 shipped Nov 14 2019 1.9.1 shipped Sep 6 2019 I’ll toss out an initial suggestion: Let’s cut the support/1.14 branch on the next date in the original quarterly cadence: Feb 1 2021. -Owen From: Alexander Murmann <amurm...@apache.org> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 4:34 PM To: dev@geode.apache.org <dev@geode.apache.org> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Postpone Geode 1.14 Hi all, As mentioned on the previous discuss thread, I propose to hold off cutting 1.14 until we have shipped 1.13. Once we have shipped 1.13, we should discuss when we want to cut the 1.14 release. The actual ship date for Geode 1.13 is important information for that conversation. Thus we cannot have that conversation before then.