Hi devs, > On 9 Dec 2018, at 16:07, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, summarizing again after feedback from Simon, Caty and Marius, here’s the > proposal; > > * Duration: 11 minor releases (e.g. N.0 till N.10), one each month, from > January to November. > * The last month of the year, December sees 2 bug fix releases, to stabilize > the cycle: N.10.1 and N.10.2. The releases are supposed to contain mostly bug > fixes. > ** Note that the N.10.2 release can happen on the first days of January to > account for end of year holidays but it should not go beyond the 3rd of > January. > ** Work for N+1.0 starts once N.10.2 has been released. > * When N.10.2 is released we announce it: > ** Send mail mentioning that the cycle is over and encourage users to start > using N.10.2 > ** In that mail, explain all the major features that were implemented during > that release cycle (make a special Release Notes for a Cycle) > * We announce the new LTS (N.10.x) once N+1.0 is released. Rationale: > ** We need to have feedback on a release before it can be considered super > stable and thus we usually need a few bug fix releases before a version can > be considered a good LTS. This gives us one month to release additional > bugfix releases for N.10.x in case it’s needed. > ** This also allows us to always support 3 branches: > *** LTS branch > *** Stable branch > *** master (latest SNAPSHOT) > > Note that I hesitated to announce the LTS when we released N.10.2 but after > thinking about it, I think it’s better to continue announcing it only when > N+1.0 is released (i.e. at end of January). > > I have modified > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices?viewer=changes&rev1=14.1&rev2=15.1 > already. > > Once I have the final validation this is ok, I’m redo the screenshot at > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices/releasecycle.png
I have now recreated the releasecycle image, see https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices#Attachments So now we need to remember that this year we’ll go till 11.10, then 11.10.1 and 11.10.2 at end of year 2019. Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> On 19 Nov 2018, at 17:13, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi devs, >> >> Some devs mentioned it’s too hard to release the N.11 release since it >> happens around Christmas every year. >> >> Here’s a proposal: >> >> * Shorten the cycle to 11 releases instead of 12. >> * Release N.9 at end of Nov >> * Release N.10 at end of first week of Jan. Note: N.10RC1 would be released >> mid December (about 17th of Dec to have 3 weeks of RC). >> * Release N+1.0 at end of February. Start of N+1.0 work >> >> Pros: >> * No release during Christmas, yeah :) >> * More time to prepare the first LTS bugfix release, i.e. N.10.1, which can >> be done during the month of January. >> * More time for the first released of N+1 (i.e. N+1.0). This is important >> since that’s the release where we can do heavy refactoring and it’s not bad >> to get some more time. >> >> Cons: >> * One less release >> >> WDYT? Do you see other cons? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >
