On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:36 PM Abhishek Lekshmanan <abhishek@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > After discussing with Nathan again on this commonly revisited topic, > this is yet another attempt at attempting a monthly release cadence. > > We currently have two releases in queue, the current mimic release and > the old stable luminous release. We could aim for cutoff dates for pr > submissions on the branches as a fixed date every month, say 15th for > luminous, and end of month for mimic. We could add this to the public > ceph community calendar, so that everyone is aware, and it is assumed > that the releases are auto approved for qe after the date, though > initially we can try sending remainder mails or so. After the cutoff > date, final qe begins, and for the existing prs on this branch, we block > merges by increasing the reviewer count to 20 or so (as suggested by > sage in an earlier thread) until the release announcements are out Monthly releases with a 2 week offset between M and L sounds very sensible to me! John > This also means more work for the backports team and QE, hopefully we > can get more volunteers. > > Also, in the current state of things the luminous queue is almost empty, > so we could try taking the current luminous branch into QE 15th of this > month itself, if the leads are ok or we could wait until end of week or > so if necessary. > > Thoughts, opinions? > > -- > Abhishek
