On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Noah, > > Please accept my apologies for the confusion. > It was my mistake that I used the term "release" for a "milestone". I'm > really sorry for that. > > Yes what we meant by a milestone is a developer preview not a release. As > you have pointed out we have not explained clearly what it is and what we > expect from the community in this thread. Really appreciate your help on > correcting these issues. > > Just to clarify again, will it be ok to follow below steps to do a > milestone/developer preview? > 1. Start a discussion thread to plan a milestone. (we did this as the > initial step) > 2. Announce the features included in the milestone. (this was also done in > a mail thread) > 3. Publish binary and source distributions of the milestone. (In this step > we missed the source distribution, however a git tag was created, will > correct it) > 4. Call for a vote? (this is something we did not do) > 5. If everyone accepts, announce the milestone. > IMO, since this in only developer preview, no need to go for a vote or announcing. To me git tag is enough, since its not a release. When we stable enough, we should plan for proper release, and then we should go for a vote. Also as Noah said, I think, its misleading to called it as "milestone release", and will use it as "milestone" or "developer preview" > > Do we need to call for a voting process for milestones? > > Again, thank you very much for bring this up. > We will correct the terminology in future milestones. Really appreciate > your feedback. > > Many Thanks > Imesh > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> An additional mail I spotted: >> >> "We are planning the third milestone of Apache Stratos (incubating) >> 4.0.0 release next week." >> >> To me, this sounds like a milestone is being treated like a release. >> But from what I gather now, I think they're meant more as developer >> previews. We absolutely must clarify this point and communicate it >> properly. >> >> On 27 November 2013 18:52, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I notice this from an earlier email: >> > >> > "We are now finalizing the third milestone of 4.0.0 release." >> > >> > So perhaps there is some confusion. >> > >> > If this is intended to be a release, then there is a problem. Releases >> > need to be done in source form, and there needs to be a vote. >> > >> > If this is not intended to be a release, then there needs to be a >> > clearer explanation of what it is. i.e. Are people expected to test >> > this? Are we soliciting feedback? When will the final vote be called? >> > >> > On 27 November 2013 18:45, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can you explain what a "milestone" is? >> >> >> >> At Apache, we only do source releases, but there is no source archive >> >> here, and I notice that have not used the term. >> >> >> >> But I find it quite irregular to be announcing the availability of >> >> binary "milestones" without a primary source archive. >> >> >> >> On 26 November 2013 17:28, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >> >>> >> >>> The third milestone of the Apache Stratos (incubtaing) 4.0.0 release >> is now >> >>> ready. >> >>> >> >>> Please find the binary packages of this milestones at: >> >>> >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/stratos/4.0.0-incubating-m3/ >> >>> >> >>> Source code could be fetched using git tag 4.0.0-incubating-m3: >> >>>>git clone >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-stratos.git >> >>>>cd incubator-stratos >> >>>>git checkout 4.0.0-incubating-m3 >> >>> >> >>> The installation guide could be found attached with this mail. >> >>> >> >>> Features Included: >> >>> >> >>> Load Balancer >> >>> - Introduced load balance statistics publishing interface. >> >>> - A reference implementation of the above interface was done for >> HAProxy >> >>> extension. >> >>> - Added support for dedicated load balancing for services. This >> applies to >> >>> both Stratos load balancer and HAProxy extension. >> >>> - Added support for dedicated load balancing for subscriptions. This >> also >> >>> applies to both Stratos load balancer and HAProxy extension. >> >>> - Fixed failover logic: Support for retrying requests on all members >> of a >> >>> given cluster if the selected member did not respond for a request. >> >>> >> >>> Auto-Scaler >> >>> - Introduced partition group model. This functionality could be used >> for >> >>> applying autoscaling algorithms on separate partition sets. >> >>> - Divided policies into two main types: Autoscaling & Deployment. >> Here the >> >>> autoscaling policies define how autoscaling logic is executed and >> deployment >> >>> policies define in which partition the next member is spawned. >> >>> >> >>> Stratos Manager >> >>> - Cleaned up and enhanced artifact synchronization, so that both >> repository >> >>> initial checkout (git clone) and repository updates (git pull) are >> done >> >>> through the java based deployment synchronization client. git.sh >> script is >> >>> not used anymore. >> >>> - Git repo credentials are encrypted/decrypted using a key, which is >> >>> generated per cartridge subscription. >> >>> >> >>> Cartridge Agent >> >>> - Publish health statistics periodically to CEP (load average and >> memory >> >>> consumption). >> >>> >> >>> CEP Extension >> >>> - Analyze health statistics sent by cartridge agent and publish >> inactive >> >>> member information (faulty members) to heath-stat topic in message >> broker. >> >>> >> >>> Please feel free to report any issues you find with this milestone in >> JIRA >> >>> under 4.0.0-M3 version tag: >> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS/fixforversion/12325284 >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Many Thanks >> >>> Apache Stratos Team >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Noah Slater >> >> https://twitter.com/nslater >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Noah Slater >> > https://twitter.com/nslater >> >> >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater >> > > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. 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