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

[Sonal Arora]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Shyam <srangana at redhat.com> 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?
>
> 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
>

I am interested in this.

-Sonal

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