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On 3/7/16, 9:24 AM, "moon soo Lee" <m...@apache.org> wrote:

>Thanks for the feedbacks.
>
>Jeff,
>If we define version number X.Y.Z as MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH, then regular
>MINOR / PATCH release make sense to me.
>
>Amos,
>One of the most frequent questions i got from users, in the conference,
>meetups, personal email are when the next version will be released. And I
>think date driven policy is one way to answer the question.
>
>Cos,
>Thanks for the helpful hint!
>
>
>Here is interval of Zeppelin previous releases.
>
>0.5.6 - 2 Months since 0.5.5
>0.5.5 - 4 Months since 0.5.0
>0.5.0 - First release since incubation
>
>Considering previous release interval and code contributions to the
>project, and I can guess release will be made every 2~4 months anyway, even
>without adopting date driven release policy.
>
>Therefore, if we setup an release interval of date driven release between
>2-4 months, then it'll not bring much additional overhead to the project
>but help setting up expectation to the next release.
>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>moon
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:56 PM Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't want to sway this discussion one way or another, so I will just
>> make a
>> data point (or perhaps a helpful hint ;)
>>
>> In Bigtop (and in some other projects I've partaken/observed) the content
>> of
>> the release would be discussed either on the dev@ list or in a special
>> JIRA.
>> One such example would be an ongoing BIGTOP-2282 or already completed
>> BIGTOP-2078.
>>
>> This way an RM can always gauge the level of interest for different
>> features
>> and make an educated guess on when to cut an RC.
>>
>> Cos
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:47PM, moon soo Lee wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > Zeppelin project used made releases driven by feature.
>> > I'm getting constant feedback from users about moving to date-driven
>> > release policy from current feature-driven. (such as major release every
>> 3
>> > months)
>> >
>> > They have pros and cons. The question is, which policy is better for
>> users
>> > and developers of this project?
>> >
>> > One good thing about date driven approach i think is, Zeppelin usually
>> gets
>> > a lot of contributions not in the release scope. Date driven policy can
>> > give user expectation of availability of those contributions.
>> >
>> > What do you think? Can you share your experiences and opinions?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > moon
>>

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