> When we speak about minor releases - it looks like the release process is > much slower and not so predictable, it can be a year or even more before I > can get any minor release which includes a change, and nobody can say even a > preliminary date for it. This is one of the reasons I keep agitating for us to move to a 12 month major release cadence.
Of note, it's been 13 months since 5.0 GA. :) On Wed, Jan 22, 2025, at 7:56 AM, Brandon Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM Jordan West <jw...@apache.org> wrote: > > We currently have guidelines published: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=199530302#Patching,versioning,andLTSreleases-Wheretoapplypatches. > > But there’s no explicit discussion of how to handle performance > > improvements. We tend to discuss whether they’re “bugfixes”. > > I agree with the published guidelines, and any performance > improvements that want to fly under the bugfix banner should seek > consensus here on the ML. > > Kind Regards, > Brandon >
