I know it feels way too early, but it's actually getting to be relatively
late to talk about planning the Nitrogen release. I know the last few
releases, we've talked about making pretty substantial changes and just ran
out of steam to implement them.

This time, I'm going to propose something slightly different. Why don't we
try one or two more minor changes. The two relatively simple changes that
come to my mind first are:

1.) Moving to having a common version range for each artifact rather than a
common version. That is moving from x.y.z-SNAPSHOT to x.y.[z,z+1) or maybe
even x.[y,y+1) and then have merge jobs publish both SNAPSHOT as well as
release artifacts with a build number as fourth part of the version. I'm
sure that there are details I'm glossing over (and I know of a few), but it
would be a relatively simple step toward decoupling some of our release
process. Some information on this is in an old thread here too:
https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/tsc/2016-July/005536.html

2.) Moving to a twice a year release process. This would help planning by
not having our release dates shift randomly around each year, fall more in
line with other open source projects, get us cycling a bit faster, and
maybe also have some more discipline. I talked about it a bit before here:
https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/tsc/2016-July/005665.html

Please chime in with any thoughts.

Cheers,
--Colin
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