[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 4.0: Schedule and scope clarity

[Shyam Ranganathan]

After several mails and discussions, we would not be ready to branch 4.0
in mid-Dec, so going forward, we revert to the original schedule for 4.0
and 4.1 (i.e 3 months from the previous release) and further move 4.1 as
an LTM (as originally planned) instead of the stated STM in the previous
mail.

Here is the new schedule,
- Release 4.0: (STM)
  - Feature freeze/branching: mid-January (Jan, 16th 2018)
  - Release date: Feb, 28th 2018
- Release 4.1: (LTM)
  - Feature freeze/branching: mid-April
  - Release date: May, 30th 2018

The focus and release scope remains the same, with GD2 being the primary
target for the release.

Thanks,
Shyam
P.S: Github milestones for these releases are updated accordingly

On 11/20/2017 04:04 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As this is a longish mail, there are a few asks below, that I request
> folks to focus and answer.
> 
> 4.0 is a STM release (Short Term Maintenance), further, 4.1 is also
> slated as a STM release (although the web pages read differently and
> will be corrected shortly). Finally 4.2 would be the first LTM (Long
> Term ...) in the 4.x release line for Gluster.
> 
> * Schedule *
> The above also considers that 4.0 will release 2 months from 3.13, which
> puts 4.0 branching (also read as feature freeze deadline) around
> mid-December (4 weeks from now).
> 
> 4.0/1/2 release calendar hence looks as follows,
> 
> - Release 4.0: (STM)
>   - Feature freeze/branching: mid-December
>   - Release date: Jan, 31st 2018
> - Release 4.1: (STM)
>   - Feature freeze/branching: mid-March
>   - Release date: Apr, 30th 2018
> - Release 4.2: (LTM, release 3.10 EOL'd)
>   - Feature freeze/branching: mid-June
>   - Release date: Jul, 31st 2018
> 
> * Scope *
> 
> The main focus in 4.0 is landing GlusterD2, and all efforts towards this
> take priority.
> 
> Further big features in 4.0 are around GFProxy, protocol layer changes,
> monitoring and usability changes, FUSE catchup, +1 scaling.
> 
> Also, some code cleanup/debt areas are in focus.
> 
> Now, glusterfs/github [1] reads ~50 issues as being targets in 4.0, and
> among this about 2-4 are marked closed (or done).
> 
> Ask1: Request each of you to go through the issue list and coordinate
> with a maintainer, to either mark an issues milestone correctly (i.e
> retain it in 4.0 or move it out) and also leave a comment on the issue
> about its readiness.
> 
> Ask 2: If there are issues that you are working on and are not marked
> against the 4.0 milestone, please do the needful for the same.
> 
> Ask 3: Please mail the devel list, on features that are making it to
> 4.0, so that the project board can be rightly populated with the issue.
> 
> Ask 4: If the 4.0 branching date was extended by another 4 weeks, would
> that enable you to finish additional features that are already marked
> for 4.0? This helps us move the needle on branching to help land the
> right set of features.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shyam
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