Hi All, While drafting the board report I realized we are delaying our releases by a long time. Our last release was in early january. We are slowly moving from 2 months to 3 to 4 months. As soon as 0.7 release is done, can we please consider my proposal below and follow a strict 6 week cycle. Any delay, lets properly justify and take exception. Since i did not see any objections before, I will call upon a vote.
+ 1 I agree 6 week release discipline will be good + 0 I do not have an opinion on this topic -1 I do not agree because ….. Cheers, Suresh On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > As the RM for the first 5 release I have set a bad example on the release > process which I would like to request all of us to consider fixing it. We > have a very reasonable high commit activity but we are lagging behind on > releases and feeling little disorganized. On a good side we are using JIRA > efficiently to capture all issues but we are not using them effectively to > plan releases (thanks Ate for the wake up call). > > How about we take our agile philosophy [1] literally ? Here is a plan I > propose for the releases: > > * Follow a strict 6-week release cycle? We can take exceptions but they have > to be well justified. > > * 2 weeks JIRA-a-Thon: identify the release features: > ** To focus on quality then quantity, focus on only one or two major features > (created as epics or stories) > ** call out for a virtual to get all get all tasks related to the next > release into jira (or tag existing ones to to the release version) > ** this the time for the community to respond and make specific requests if > they have a burning feature they would like to see in the next release > ** free new feature jira tagging to the next release > ** advertise the next release notes (there may be more bug fixes added later) > > * 2 weeks Hack-a-Thon: Run through all the development (added to the 2 weeks > of parallel development which happens during JIRA-a-Thon) > ** address any deferred issues from previous release > ** bug fixes coming through from previous releases > ** feature/bug fix freeze > ** defer any un-finished issues to next release > > *1 week Test-a-Thon: Integrations and testing on trunk and 1 RC > ** The RC testing among other random testings will need to ensure all > advertised release features/bug fixes are properly tested > ** improve documentation along with creating release specific documentation > > * 1 week Release-a-Thon: Fix RC issues, and iterating over and making a > release (if all goes well) > > Spin the cycle > > applauses, grievances, yellings, welcome !! > > Cheers, > Suresh > > [1] - http://airavata.apache.org/development/roadmap.html > >
