[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] Release Management Process change - proposal

[Amye Scavarda]

So, as I review this, we have a few different guidelines for maintainers
and release processes.
We have ReadtheDocs [1], the old Community site [2] and the RTD
documentation for releases [3]  -- while 1 and 2 look nearly identical, 2
will eventually disappear so that we're not maintaining two active copies.
Should we be consolidating these new guidelines into a new page in RTD?

- amye

[1]
https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Contributors-Guide/Guidelines-For-Maintainers/

[2]
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Guidelines_For_Maintainers

[3]
https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Contributors-Guide/GlusterFS-Release-process/


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:13 AM, FNU Raghavendra Manjunath <
rabhat at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > We are blocked on 3.7.12 owing to this proposal. Appreciate any
>> > feedback on this!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Vijay
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> We have encountered a spate of regressions in recent 3.7.x releases.
>> The
>> >> 3.7.x maintainers are facing additional burdens to ensure functional,
>> >> performance and upgrade correctness. I feel component maintainers
>> should own
>> >> these aspects of stability as we own the components and understand our
>> >> components better than anybody else. In order to have more active
>> >> participation from maintainers for every release going forward, I
>> propose
>> >> this process:
>> >>
>> >> 1. All component maintainers will need to provide an explicit ack
>> about the
>> >> content and quality of their respective components before a release is
>> >> tagged.
>> >>
>> >> 2. A release will not be tagged if any component is not acked by a
>> >> maintainer.
>> >>
>> >> 3. Release managers will co-ordinate getting acks from maintainers and
>> >> perform necessary housekeeping (closing bugs etc.).
>> >>
>> >> This is not entirely new and a part of this process has been outlined
>> in the
>> >> Guidelines for Maintainers [1] document. I am inclined to enforce this
>> >> process with more vigor to ensure that we do better on quality &
>> stability.
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts, questions and feedback about the process are very welcome!
>> >>
>>
>> +1 from me. Spreading out the verification duties will help us do
>> better releases.
>>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Vijay
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >>
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Guidelines_For_Maintainers
>> >>
>> >>
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Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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