Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] Release Management Process change - proposal

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+1.



On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are blocked on 3.7.12 owing to this proposal. Appreciate any
> feedback on this!
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have encountered a spate of regressions in recent 3.7.x releases. The
>> 3.7.x maintainers are facing additional burdens to ensure functional,
>> performance and upgrade correctness. I feel component maintainers should own
>> these aspects of stability as we own the components and understand our
>> components better than anybody else. In order to have more active
>> participation from maintainers for every release going forward, I propose
>> this process:
>>
>> 1. All component maintainers will need to provide an explicit ack about the
>> content and quality of their respective components before a release is
>> tagged.
>>
>> 2. A release will not be tagged if any component is not acked by a
>> maintainer.
>>
>> 3. Release managers will co-ordinate getting acks from maintainers and
>> perform necessary housekeeping (closing bugs etc.).
>>
>> This is not entirely new and a part of this process has been outlined in the
>> Guidelines for Maintainers [1] document. I am inclined to enforce this
>> process with more vigor to ensure that we do better on quality & stability.
>>
>> Thoughts, questions and feedback about the process are very welcome!
>>

+1 from me. Spreading out the verification duties will help us do
better releases.

>> Thanks,
>> Vijay
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Guidelines_For_Maintainers
>>
>>
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