On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Colin Dixon <[email protected]> wrote:

> From today's TSC call, it sounds like 1.) is more technical and probably
> either wants an ongoing call or mailing list thread of it's own to go over
> the technical needs and how we might take a whack at it.
>
> --Colin
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Colin Dixon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
As many probably know, OVS is moving to a twice a year release schedule and
is aligning with OpenStack:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-November/324752.html

Many of our projects depend on OVS and also work with OpenStack.  It seems
that a similar alignment would be beneficial for ODL.

Andre


>
>>
>> Please chime in with any thoughts.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --Colin
>>
>>
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