Abhishek,
I would like to start enforcing cadence guidelines for future point releases.
It sounded that we agreed on 6 weeks. The way I see it
week 1 -----> week 2 -----> week 3 -----> week 4 ----->
week 5 -----> week 6
Open window : PRs added, tested, merged -----> No
new PRs -----> QE/publish
If that;s what we want, can you pls publish somewhere a page for "Ceph
Releases Cadence rules"?
I'd be happy to help iterate on details.
Thx
YuriW
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:36 AM 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
>
> 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
