I tend to agree here. Full builds with all unit tests on AMQ can take 4 to 5 hours , if one is testing many jvm vendors & platforms it can take a few days just to get coverage. Weekend releases can make it challenging to complete them all.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 19:23 Christopher Shannon < christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Apache guideline for voting is that votes should run for at least > 72 hours [1] but nothing prevents a vote from going longer. It also > doesn't specify anything about votes on weekends or not but just > generally 72 hours. > > Because there isn't a maximum time for votes, (I've seen votes go > weeks on some projects), I think it would be a good idea if we adopted > a policy where we don't count weekend days or major holidays etc to > allow for everyone 3 business days to be able to have a chance to > review a release and vote. > > This doesn't have to be something super strict, we don't need to go > crazy counting holidays as they can vary by country and region, but > major holidays like New Years make sense. Urgent releases can also > always go out quicker if needed, I just think it would be a nice goal > for most releases though. > > Thoughts? > > [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@activemq.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@activemq.apache.org > For further information, visit: https://activemq.apache.org/contact > > >
