Alright, I'll start working on an RC0 for 5.1.0. I'm also going to change the milestone deadline for 5.1 to two weeks from now, which is mostly meaningless but is just sort of a personal goal for myself.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 11:10 AM Rawlin Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, with no new major features going in, the chance of bugs needing > fixed/backported seems much lower. We just need to be adamant about > only backporting critical bug fixes. > > - Rawlin > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 11:06 AM Jeremy Mitchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > The delta between 5.0 and 5.1 is quite small - > > https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/compare/5.0.x...master > > > > I think we could get it out and approved pretty quick. > > > > Jeremy > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:27 AM ocket 8888 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't mind cutting 5.1 from before 4.0 was added, but only if we > have a > > > high level of confidence that it won't take more than a couple weeks > to > > > approve and finalize; if we want 6.0 to stay on schedule as the "next" > > > release then 5.1 shouldn't get in its way with a bunch of backports. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 11:24 AM Rawlin Peters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I can get on board with a quick 5.1. > > > > > > > > However, API 4.x already exists in master, and I know there was at > > > > least one more breaking change to the DS API that might be coming > > > > soon. It would be nice to not have to turn around and immediately > > > > create API 5.x for that, so maybe we could choose a branch point on > > > > master from _before_ API 4.x was added. Then we could continue adding > > > > stuff to 4.x in time for a 6.0 release in a couple months. > > > > > > > > - Rawlin > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 11:10 AM Jeremy Mitchell < > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Now that TC 5.0 is official (thanks Brennan for seeing that thru > as the > > > > 5.0 > > > > > release manager), we should think about our next TC release. Here > are > > > > some > > > > > larger things in the works: > > > > > > > > > > 1. Perl removal > > > > > 2. API 1.x removal > > > > > 3. API 2.x deprecation > > > > > 4. API 4.x addition > > > > > 5. Go modules > > > > > > > > > > Those items make this feel like a larger release (6.0) is warranted > > > > rather > > > > > than a minor upgrade (5.1). > > > > > > > > > > However, there might be some value in cutting 5.1 ASAP (before > those 5 > > > > > things are merged) to pick up some topology improvements / bug > fixes as > > > > you > > > > > can see here: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/compare/5.0.x...master > > > > > > > > > > thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > > >
