[Gluster-Maintainers] Release Management Process change - proposal

[Vijay Bellur]

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!
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
> [1]
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Guidelines_For_Maintainers
>
>