Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-07 Thread Jamie Bennett
On 2 Mar 2011, at 08:52, Michael Hope wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Maydell  
> wrote:
>> On 2 March 2011 01:33, Michael Hope  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Peter Maydell  
>>> wrote:
>>>  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones
>> 
 That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
 releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
 use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
 for release versions.
>> 
>>> Hi Peter.  We'll keep the 2011.xx-y names for the products.  Each
>>> project has product series and a planning series.  The product series
>>> are ones like '4.5' or '4.4' for gcc-linaro, and 'trunk' for
>>> qemu-linaro, and these then have milestones like '2011.03'.
>> 
>> Is this a proposal to vary the proposed new milestone names,
>> or a suggestion that the toolchain group should continue as
>> it is and not worry about the inconsistency with other groups?
> 
> There's no change from our product series/milestone naming point of
> view.  The dates will change to the end of the month to sync up across
> Linaro.  There will be a parallel and, unfortunately, largely
> identical planning series with milestones as well.

We talked more about this tonight and the takeaway was that we need to
investigate the best possible way of tracking deliverables with the 
existing tools we use. This may not explicitly be dependant on a specific
milestone name, rather its date but this is still in progress. I'll reply 
back when I have more information.


> -- Michael

Regards,
Jamie.

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-02 Thread Jamie Bennett
On 02/03/11 at 09:52pm, Michael Hope wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Maydell  
> wrote:
> > On 2 March 2011 01:33, Michael Hope  wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Peter Maydell  
> >> wrote:
> > >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones
> >
> >>> That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
> >>> releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
> >>> use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
> >>> for release versions.
> >
> >> Hi Peter.  We'll keep the 2011.xx-y names for the products.  Each
> >> project has product series and a planning series.  The product series
> >> are ones like '4.5' or '4.4' for gcc-linaro, and 'trunk' for
> >> qemu-linaro, and these then have milestones like '2011.03'.
> >
> > Is this a proposal to vary the proposed new milestone names,
> > or a suggestion that the toolchain group should continue as
> > it is and not worry about the inconsistency with other groups?
> 
> There's no change from our product series/milestone naming point of
> view.  The dates will change to the end of the month to sync up across
> Linaro.  There will be a parallel and, unfortunately, largely
> identical planning series with milestones as well.

For status.linaro.org to correctly track your Blueprints and Work Items
together with the rest of Linaro's outputs they must be targeted to a
milestone named like in the wiki page. Status will group all projects
together with the same milestone to get a picture of what is due for
that date. Targeting Work Items or Blueprints to another milestone will
mean they won't show up.

> -- Michael

Regards,
Jamie.

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Maydell  wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 01:33, Michael Hope  wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Peter Maydell  
>> wrote:
> >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones
>
>>> That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
>>> releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
>>> use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
>>> for release versions.
>
>> Hi Peter.  We'll keep the 2011.xx-y names for the products.  Each
>> project has product series and a planning series.  The product series
>> are ones like '4.5' or '4.4' for gcc-linaro, and 'trunk' for
>> qemu-linaro, and these then have milestones like '2011.03'.
>
> Is this a proposal to vary the proposed new milestone names,
> or a suggestion that the toolchain group should continue as
> it is and not worry about the inconsistency with other groups?

There's no change from our product series/milestone naming point of
view.  The dates will change to the end of the month to sync up across
Linaro.  There will be a parallel and, unfortunately, largely
identical planning series with milestones as well.

-- Michael

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Maydell
On 2 March 2011 01:33, Michael Hope  wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Peter Maydell  
> wrote:
 >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones

>> That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
>> releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
>> use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
>> for release versions.

> Hi Peter.  We'll keep the 2011.xx-y names for the products.  Each
> project has product series and a planning series.  The product series
> are ones like '4.5' or '4.4' for gcc-linaro, and 'trunk' for
> qemu-linaro, and these then have milestones like '2011.03'.

Is this a proposal to vary the proposed new milestone names,
or a suggestion that the toolchain group should continue as
it is and not worry about the inconsistency with other groups?

-- PMM

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Peter Maydell  wrote:
> On 1 March 2011 20:45, Jamie Bennett  wrote:
>> On 01/03/11 at 01:25pm, Tom Gall wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jamie Bennett  
>>> wrote:
>>> >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones
>
>> If agreed I would propose that all projects use the milestone names and
>> dates in the above link in their launchpad projects. Blueprints and work
>> items can then target these milestones
>
> That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
> releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
> use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
> for release versions. Is anybody actually currently using the
> milestone names in the wiki page above? If not, wouldn't it make
> more sense to standardise on the format we're already using?
> (Plus, two digit years? Very retro...)

Hi Peter.  We'll keep the 2011.xx-y names for the products.  Each
project has product series and a planning series.  The product series
are ones like '4.5' or '4.4' for gcc-linaro, and 'trunk' for
qemu-linaro, and these then have milestones like '2011.03'.  The
planning series are named after the planning cycle such as '11.05' and
have milestones like '11.05-final', '11.05-alpha2', and so on.

The planning series names and dates are consistent across all of
Linaro and let the PM people collapse the data into a whole of Linaro
view.  Every blueprint we plan to complete this cycle should be
accepted for the 11.05 series and at least targeted at the 11.05-final
milestone.

There is a wart though - say we plan to finish blueprint 'x' by the
March release.  Do we assign it to the product 2011.03 milestone or
the otherwise identical planning 11.05-foo milestone?

-- Michael

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Maydell
On 1 March 2011 20:45, Jamie Bennett  wrote:
> On 01/03/11 at 01:25pm, Tom Gall wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jamie Bennett  
>> wrote:
>> >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones

> If agreed I would propose that all projects use the milestone names and
> dates in the above link in their launchpad projects. Blueprints and work
> items can then target these milestones

That would be an annoying format change for toolchain group
releases, which are already on a monthly schedule and currently
use "2011.03" for milestone names, and "2011.03-0" (-1, -2 ...)
for release versions. Is anybody actually currently using the
milestone names in the wiki page above? If not, wouldn't it make
more sense to standardise on the format we're already using?
(Plus, two digit years? Very retro...)

-- PMM

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Jamie Bennett
On 01/03/11 at 01:25pm, Tom Gall wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jamie Bennett  
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Throughout Linaro we are looking at ways to better coordinate the
> > deliverables that come from Linaro's Working Groups and Platform teams.
> > The idea of Monthly Component releases, a fixed date in the month where
> > each team would release their latest work fits well with what we do and
> > to that end a wiki page proposing the exact dates has been produced at:
> >
> >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones
> 
> It makes sense and I like the concept.
> 
> Will there be some method for groups to state their goals for what they plan
> to contribute to various releases? Wiki page? Blueprint? Something else?

If agreed I would propose that all projects use the milestone names and
dates in the above link in their launchpad projects. Blueprints and work
items can then target these milestones and because all projects will have
a common naming scheme we can agregate this out to http://status.linaro.org
to get a Linaro wide picture of what is delivered, when.
 
> Regards,
> Tom

Regards,
Jamie.

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Tom Gall
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jamie Bennett  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Throughout Linaro we are looking at ways to better coordinate the
> deliverables that come from Linaro's Working Groups and Platform teams.
> The idea of Monthly Component releases, a fixed date in the month where
> each team would release their latest work fits well with what we do and
> to that end a wiki page proposing the exact dates has been produced at:
>
>  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones

It makes sense and I like the concept.

Will there be some method for groups to state their goals for what they plan
to contribute to various releases? Wiki page? Blueprint? Something else?

> You will notice that the dates are fixed, always the third Thursday in
> the month promoting a unified consistency across the teams. Please note
> that the Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds do not follow this schedule
> and will continue to be closely coupled with the Ubuntu schedule.
>
> Please take a look at the dates and highlight any problems that could
> arise from them. If there is positive feedback we can make these dates
> 'official' very soon meaning teams could start using this format next
> month.

I think this is a good idea. It gives individuals and teams something to drive
towards.

I imagine that as new things are thrown into the pot in anticipation
of these dates
it might also cause some "chaos" around these days but I view that as a positive
side effect. Integration bugs happen.

Regards,
Tom
Developer Platforms, Linaro

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Re: Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki

W dniu 01.03.2011 16:49, Jamie Bennett pisze:


Please take a look at the dates and highlight any problems that could
arise from them. If there is positive feedback we can make these dates
'official' very soon meaning teams could start using this format next
month.


Sice having no planned releases is worse than having hardcoded release 
pattern I'm all for having monthly pulse that synchronizes all of Linaro 
outputs (speaking for my point of view in the validation team)


Even if initially it would not be any more productive I'm sure it would 
help us align in few months. If anything we could plan features so that 
they make more sense in context (having an option to do A then B we can 
choose at random or have a look at what would be released next month by 
other teams and if A or B would fit better in context).


Thanks
ZK

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Monthly component release candidate dates

2011-03-01 Thread Jamie Bennett
Hi,

Throughout Linaro we are looking at ways to better coordinate the
deliverables that come from Linaro's Working Groups and Platform teams. 
The idea of Monthly Component releases, a fixed date in the month where 
each team would release their latest work fits well with what we do and
to that end a wiki page proposing the exact dates has been produced at:

  https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MonthlyMilestones

You will notice that the dates are fixed, always the third Thursday in
the month promoting a unified consistency across the teams. Please note
that the Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds do not follow this schedule
and will continue to be closely coupled with the Ubuntu schedule. 

Please take a look at the dates and highlight any problems that could
arise from them. If there is positive feedback we can make these dates
'official' very soon meaning teams could start using this format next
month.

Regards,
Jamie.
--
Linaro Release Manager   |   Platform Project Manager

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