Zemeer, thanks for the input. I think we should discuss that in the next community sync (can you join?). Vinod did some analysis on how people feel about the release cadence, but I don't see that results being published. Should we discuss that again and come up with some concrete action items?
- Jie On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Zameer Manji <[email protected]> wrote: > Cong brings up a good point here. Currently Mesos has a very aggressive > release cadence. This results in several questions as a cluster operator > and framework author. > > - What is the support from the community/committers for each release? > - Do cluster operators and framework authors need to move at the same > space at the community? > - Will bugfixes be automatically backported? > > The lack of clarity here can result in several issues because it is easy > for the Mesos PMC to cut releases quickly, but it isn't easy for people > with existing clusters to upgrade at that pace. An aggressive release > policy without clear support for older releases can leave several users in > a bad position where they might need to upgrade Mesos through one (or > more!) releases just to get a critical bugfix. > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Cong Wang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Jie Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mesos currently has no notion of long term stable releases (i.e., > LTS). I > > > think the consensus in the last community sync was to introduce LTS > after > > > 1.0. > > > > > > You don't need LTS as kernel, even talking about short term stable > releases > > like 0.27.2 (?), they look horrible too, I don't see any git tags or > > branches for > > these releases, just a tar ball?! Huh... > > > > > > > > > > 0.27.2 has already been released. Looks like we need 0.27.3 if we want > to > > > backport it. > > > > > > What determines which patches need to backport for Mesos community? > > It doesn't look like every bug fix is evaluated and considered after they > > are merged into master branch. > > > > > > > > I am OK with back porting it. Then the question is that whether we want > > to > > > backport it to other releases as well. > > > > > > > It should be backported to whichever releases it applies to and you > > support, > > I don't see Mesos community has such a procedure. > > > > -- > > Zameer Manji > > > > >
