On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Bill Erickson wrote: > Hi All, > > Since we are now applying a more rigid schedule to major releases for > Evergreen, perhaps we should do the same for maintenance releases. We've > already agreed to generally do monthly maintenance releases. How about we > elect a day each month for the release cutting? It can be flexible as > needed, of course, but I think it's nice to have a default target. > > There will be exceptions, like critical (data-eating) bugs / critical > security fixes, but we can manage those on an as-needed basis. > > Since I'm bringing it up, I'll go ahead and suggest the 3rd Wednesday of > each month. I like Wednesdays since they give us lead/recovery time in the > form of business days. Plus the 3rd Wednesday of each month gives us some, > but not too much, flub room to get the release out within the monthly > window. > > For January, this would mean 2.3.3 and 2.2.5 would be released January > 16th.
+1 : making (relatively) firm decisions helps us march toward the same release goals If this proposal goes forward, let's get the dates onto the development calendar, too.
