[Gluster-Maintainers] (was: Release 3.12: RC0 tagging date (Jul-31st-2017)) Release 3.12: RC0 Tagged!

[Shyam Ranganathan]

Finally! RC0 is tagged and sent for packaging (to make it easier for 
users to test and provide feedback).

With this we will not accept any more feature backports to 3.12, and 
only bug fixes will be merged (as per the stability phase guidelines [1]).

This brings us to the testing/stability phase of the release, to ensure 
existing and new features function as required.

I will send a more detailed mail with the release notes and the builds 
to users list as well, to encourage testing feedback on the release.

Shyam

[1] Stability phase of a release: 
https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Contributors-Guide/GlusterFS-Release-process/#glusterfs-major-release-window

"Releases are made better together"

On 07/21/2017 05:21 PM, Shyam wrote:
> One last note (for now):
> 
> For RC0 we would like to have relevant release notes for features that 
> are a part of the release.
> 
> Towards this, I have submitted an initial template version of the 
> release notes [1], and would like to encourage all contributors who have 
> features submitted (or even otherwise), to add respective sections for 
> these features.
> 
> It would be a nice change to have release notes fleshed out by RC0 
> itself (an added bonus is that we won't trouble you further on your 
> feature for this release ;) ).
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam
> 
> [1] Release notes template: 
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.12/doc/release-notes/3.12.0.md 
> 
> 
> On 07/21/2017 04:19 PM, Shyam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We would tag the 3.12 release branch RC0 on 31st July, (say 1:00 PM
>> Eastern TZ [1]).
>>
>> All features that have been granted an exception for a backport, should
>> be merged (or read for a merge) by this time, for a smooth RC0 tagging.
>>
>> Further, post RC0 we would be generating packages as well for testing
>> the release. So package maintainers, request that you have required
>> permissions/work-products ready for an RC0.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shyam
>>
>> [1] Eastern TZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone
>>
>> "Releases are made better together"
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