On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Abhishek Lekshmanan <abhishek@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Cutler <ncutler@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> If you're asking me (a volunteer with no political clout), cutting releases >>> every 3 weeks (or even every "n" weeks) is simply not feasible. >> >> What if we tagged the luminous branch on the 1st Monday of every >> month? Then we have roughly two weeks for merging a bunch of PRs at >> the beginning of the month, and two weeks "freezing" while Yuri runs >> Teuthology. > > One of the issues with a one month approach is the smaller amount of > backport prs that would go in, at the current rate we're merging in the > range of 5-10 prs per week, because we gang up a bunch of backport prs > and these go through the qe and related analysis etc. If you want a > freeze at the beginning of month you want to get all the critical > release prs merged in the 3rd and 4th week, with our size of a backport > team and sepia bandwidth and everything; this is going to be hard. If we > are going for a calendar based schedule, we need the subteams to be more > active and making sure that the backport prs they need are getting the > required attention every week or so. And that would put extra strain on the backport team again :( Seems that so far, if we increase the cadence, the main problem is regression testing? It is unclear how much effort/days that is. It is disheartening to hear that is just not possible to release sooner than every six weeks. > > -- > Abhishek > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
