[Gluster-devel] [IMPORTANT] Release planning for GlusterFS 3.8, schedule, deadlines and all

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 03/14/2016 02:49 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're kicking the 3.8 release back into shape and schedule. Our planned
> 6 month release cycle has completely failed on us, we're about 6 months
> behind. I've taken the liberty to set aggressive deadlines and put this
> on the roadmap on https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.8/ .
> 
> The page explains the dates, it will be extremely difficult to convince
> me to change it. A delay because a feature is not ready will not be
> acceptable, the feature will be moved out into the next (major/minor)
> release.
Is this applicable for all Gluster 4.0 initiatives as well? Since all of
these will come as experimental features as part of 3.8 does feature
freeze criteria apply for them?
> 
> Requirements that are listed on the roadmap affect all features. *ALL*
> of these will need to be mostly fulfilled by the end of April. The last
> day of April has been picked as branch date. Any feature that is not
> ready at the time of branching (includes *ALL* requirements) will be
> disabled/removed from the sources. There is an other chance to get the
> feature in for the following release in 6 months time.
> 
> All feature owners have been put on CC of this email. They need to go
> through the roadmap and update the description, current status, links,
> and any other missing parts before the end of this week. There need to
> be visible progress on at least the contents in the roadmap, and in the
> linked designs/feature pages. If there is no obvious attempt to improve
> the status of the feature, it will be marked as "move to next release".
> 
> Sending updates for the roadmap is easy, click the "Edit this page on
> GitHub" link on the bottom of the page. It should create a pull request
> that I can review, please assign it to me ("nixpanic" on GitHub).
> 
> If a feature is not expected to be ready before the end of April, please
> let me know as soon as possible. All tracking that we do makes it easier
> when we are kept informed.
> 
> For this release, Jiffin offered his assistance. If there are any
> questions, do not hesitate to ask us (of course with the gluster-devel
> list on CC).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jiffin & Niels
> 
> 
> 
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