[Gluster-users] Release 3.12: Scope and calendar!

[Shyam]

Hi,

Here are some top reminders for the 3.12 release:

1) When 3.12 is released 3.8 will be EOL'd, hence users are encouraged 
to prepare for the same as per the calendar posted here.

2) 3.12 is a long term maintenance (LTM) release, and potentially the 
last in the 3.x line of Gluster!

3) From this release onward, the feature freeze date is moved ~45 days 
in advance, before the release. Hence, for this one release you will 
have lesser time to get your features into the release.

Release calendar:

- Feature freeze, or branching date: July 17th, 2017
    - All feature post this date need exceptions granted to make it into 
the 3.12 release

- Release date: August 30th, 2017

Release owners:

- Shyam
- <TBD> Any volunteers?

Features and major changes process in a nutshell:
1) Open a github issue

2) Refer the issue # in the commit messages of all changes against the 
feature (specs, code, tests, docs, release notes) (refer to the issue as 
"updates gluster/glusterfs#N" where N is the issue)

3) We will ease out release-notes updates form this release onward. 
Still thinking how to get that done, but the intention is that a 
contributor can update release notes before/on/after completion of the 
feature and not worry about branching dates etc. IOW, you can control 
when you are done, than the release dates controlling the same for you.

Thanks,
Shyam