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

[Ankit Raj]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jiffin Tony Thottan <jthottan at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 01/06/17 22:47, Shyam wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
> I am interested
> --
> Jiffin
>
>

      I am also interested
       Ankit

> 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
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