On Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 4:20 PM Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote:
> Ed Leafe wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > > > >> There is a risk that deployment to production is delayed, and therefore > feedback is delayed and the wait for the ‘initial bug fixes before we > deploy to prod’ gets longer. > > > > There is always a rush at the Feature Freeze point in a cycle to get > things in, or they will be delayed for 6 months. With the year-long cycle, > now anything missing Feature Freeze will be delayed by a year. The long > cycle also means that a lot more time will be spent backporting things to > the current release, since people won’t be able to wait a whole year for > some improvements. > > > > Maybe it’s just the dev in me, but I prefer shorter cycles (CD, anyone?). > > Yes, I'll admit I'm struggling with that part of the proposal too. We > could use intermediary releases but there would always be a "more > important" release. > > Is the "rush" at the end of the cycle still a thing those days ? From a > release management perspective it felt like the pressure was reduced in > recent cycles, with less and less FFEs. But that may be that PTLs have > gotten better at denying them, not that the pressure is reduced now that > we are past the hype peak... > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev Thierry, I feel like the rush at the end of a cycle had gotten better to some extent. The features going into Cinder, however habe slowed and we have had more ling running development. I am afraid the rush might come back oud we have longer development cycles. Jay > >
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