Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-12-10 Thread Chip Childers
; >> >> From: David Nalley [da...@gnsa.us] >> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:37 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: Rohit Yadav; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases go

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-12-03 Thread Animesh Chaturvedi
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward Late to the party here folks, and this may have been covered in one of the other threads about releasing. Automation is great. But all we can automate is the preparation of release candidates. But the voting will always be manual, and will always

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-12-01 Thread Noah Slater
re. > > Regards. > > > From: David Nalley [da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:37 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Rohit Yadav; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Rohit Yadav
: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > I am no release expert, but I was at couple devops events lately and the > continuous delivery model makes sense to me. We should aim to be able to > release "every day". Automate everything up to the actual vote. The manual > vote

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 1:42 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Rohit Yadav; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > > On Fri

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread David Nalley
> I am no release expert, but I was at couple devops events lately and the > continuous delivery model makes sense to me. We should aim to be able to > release "every day". Automate everything up to the actual vote. The manual > vote should actually be the lengthiest process in the release. Wit

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
incubator.apache.org >>> Cc: Alex Huang; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward >>> >>> >>> On 08-Nov-2012, at 5:52 AM, Caleb Call wrote: >>> >>>> From a non-developer perspective, more release

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread David Nalley
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Alex Huang wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Rohit Yadav >> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:23 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: Alex Huang; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers >> Sub

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Alex Huang
> -Original Message- > From: Rohit Yadav > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:23 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Alex Huang; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > > > On 08-Nov-2012, at

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Chip Childers
gt; >> -Original Message- >> From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] >> Sent: 14 May 2012 20:07 >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: [DISCUSS] releases going forward >> >> Hi folks, >> >> We had some chatter on private@ lis

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-09 Thread Chip Childers
ich was due out in May > > Geoff > > -Original Message- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: 14 May 2012 20:07 > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > > Hi folks, > > We had some chatter on

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-07 Thread Radhika Puthiyetath
lex Huang; chip.child...@sungard.com Childers Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward On 08-Nov-2012, at 5:52 AM, Caleb Call wrote: > From a non-developer perspective, more releases shows a project is actively > being worked-on/improved. We I'm looking at new projects

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-07 Thread Rohit Yadav
he more releases we'll >> do, the better we'll get at it. >> >> --Alex >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:25 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubato

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-07 Thread Caleb Call
+1 on 4 months as the timing. My opinion is that the more releases we'll do, > the better we'll get at it. > > --Alex > > -Original Message- > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:25 PM > To: cloudst

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-07 Thread Alex Huang
rg Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward 4 months seems like plenty when I consider the things that missed the cut into 4.0. I'm not sure how much the cycle will drive/kick off new development vs just opening a window to merge changes that may have been incubating any number of mont

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-07 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012, at 03:40 PM, David Nalley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > In another thread, I think we were discussing monthly releases for minor > > releases. IMHO, that's a good schedule and we should try for a monthly > > release rather than trying to d

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-06 Thread Marcus Sorensen
4 months seems like plenty when I consider the things that missed the cut into 4.0. I'm not sure how much the cycle will drive/kick off new development vs just opening a window to merge changes that may have been incubating any number of months, or just not lined up perfectly with the previous win

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:34:35AM -0800, Kevin Kluge wrote: >> I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of >> work and I'd prefer to spread that over fewer iterations per year. > > Presumably, releases will be less wo

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:34:35AM -0800, Kevin Kluge wrote: > I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of > work and I'd prefer to spread that over fewer iterations per year. Presumably, releases will be less work once we do them a few times and keep adding automation. I'm

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread Charles Moulliard
onday, November 05, 2012 8:05 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > > I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of work > and I'd prefer to spread that over fewer iterations per year. > >

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread Rajesh Battala
+1 -Original Message- From: Kevin Kluge [mailto:kevin.kl...@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 8:05 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of work and I'

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread Sudha Ponnaganti
+1 -Original Message- From: Kevin Kluge [mailto:kevin.kl...@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 6:35 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of work and I'

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-05 Thread Kevin Kluge
I'd have a preference for 6 month releases. Releases are a lot of work and I'd prefer to spread that over fewer iterations per year. And I would just call them all major releases (versioning aside). I'm thinking of something like Fedora. We can independently decide to do minor releases (pres

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-04 Thread David Nalley
>> Ideally, though - docs should be updated through the process. (i.e., >> let's not wait until M3W1 to start doc updates, please.) > > Absolutely true. I just think that we need to call out the feature > freeze as being the point in time that documentation can start being > reviewed in earnest, a

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-03 Thread Noah Slater
ore and more > features on each release and I'm sure Citrix would love to incoporate > features for their commercial releases but if we are not strict with this, > we will just keep slipping. Other than that, I am in favor of this. > >>> > >>> Will > >>&g

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-01 Thread Chip Childers
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:26:05PM -0400, Chip Childers wrote: >> Digging this out of the past, IIRC, we never got around to resolving >> the time period for releases. We should come to a conclusion on this >> topic! I'd like to propose t

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-01 Thread Chip Childers
e Citrix would love to incoporate features for their >>> commercial releases but if we are not strict with this, we will just keep >>> slipping. Other than that, I am in favor of this. >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> F

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-11-01 Thread John Burwell
incoporate features for their >> commercial releases but if we are not strict with this, we will just keep >> slipping. Other than that, I am in favor of this. >> >> Will >> >> >> From: Marcus Sorensen [shad

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Marcus Sorensen
This will be really nice. It will help just to know what the windows are so that we don't keep pushing back to include this or that... we know there's always a next time and when that will be.

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:26:05PM -0400, Chip Childers wrote: > Digging this out of the past, IIRC, we never got around to resolving > the time period for releases. We should come to a conclusion on this > topic! I'd like to propose that we follow a 4 month release cycle for > non-bug fix releas

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Chip Childers
Yes, changing the major or minor number will probably be locked down after the feature freeze in my proposal. - chip Sent from my iPhone. On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > I just reread this, and it sounds more like we decide what the version will > be (major or minor) AFTE

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Not necessarily, I wasn't picturing a scenario where we release in lock step with a platform so much as just jumping to the next gen of platforms when it makes sense. Although I get the point, this could be tricky. On Oct 31, 2012 8:58 PM, "Joe Brockmeier" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 07:16:2

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Chip Childers
The release is absolutely 4.0.0-incubating. This thread is an old one, which I dug up trying to remember if we picked a release timeframe previously. We had not, as far as I can tell. - chip Sent from my iPhone. On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > Oh, and I vote 4.0 for the f

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Chip Childers
> From: Marcus Sorensen [shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:02 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > > +1, this would line up nicely with having a major rev once a year with 2 or > 3 minor revisions in betwe

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 07:16:28PM -0600, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > We could also do something else like align major revs with target > platforms, e.g. 4.0 targets centos 6.x and Ubuntu 12.04, with minor revs > being feature releases. That may help solidify the support life cycle as > well, and we j

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Will Chan
just keep slipping. Other than that, I am in favor of this. Will From: Marcus Sorensen [shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:02 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward +1, this would li

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Oh, and I vote 4.0 for the first apache release. Unless I totally misunderstand something that's what we've been calling it for awhile and I think it will confuse things for outsiders to change now. On Oct 31, 2012 7:16 PM, "Marcus Sorensen" wrote: > I just reread this, and it sounds more like we

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Marcus Sorensen
I just reread this, and it sounds more like we decide what the version will be (major or minor) AFTER we know what's going into it. I'm OK with that of course, but we'll need some sort of definition to go by. I also think it may end up in favor of major revs more often than not. We could also do s

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Marcus Sorensen
+1, this would line up nicely with having a major rev once a year with 2 or 3 minor revisions in between. Then maybe once a month someone rolls up any applicable bugfixes and we do a point release? Do we want to have some procedure around that, like a mini vote? On Oct 31, 2012 6:26 PM, "Chip Child

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-10-31 Thread Chip Childers
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:45 AM, David Nalley wrote: > So I think we have consensus around a few things already - lets > highlight those: > > * Time based releases > * Versioning scheme: > X.Y.Z > > - X : increases when there is a "major" change in architecture or some > major new feature > - Y :

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-24 Thread Robert Schweikert
On 05/24/2012 10:45 AM, David Nalley wrote: So I think we have consensus around a few things already - lets highlight those: * Time based releases * Versioning scheme: X.Y.Z - X : increases when there is a "major" change in architecture or some major new feature - Y : increases with every relea

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew Hartmann
I agree with George ... I think first Apache release should be 4.0.0. Matthew On 5/24/2012 10:52 AM, George Reese wrote: I think the first Apache release should be 4.0.0. Also, in terms of managing release life cycle, I like the Ubuntu approach.Not specifically in their numbering, but in the

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-24 Thread George Reese
I think the first Apache release should be 4.0.0. Also, in terms of managing release life cycle, I like the Ubuntu approach.Not specifically in their numbering, but in the predictability of what has long term support and what doesn't. -George On May 24, 2012, at 9:45 AM, David Nalley wrote: >

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-24 Thread David Nalley
So I think we have consensus around a few things already - lets highlight those: * Time based releases * Versioning scheme: X.Y.Z - X : increases when there is a "major" change in architecture or some major new feature - Y : increases with every release every 6 month (reset when X increases) - Z

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Schweikert
On 05/17/2012 05:29 PM, David Nalley wrote: [lots of snippage below] On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Robert Schweikert wrote: A release a month does not work for packagers. With CloudStack code being open source it can be included in distributions. If there is a release every month packagers

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Schweikert
On 05/17/2012 05:57 PM, John Kinsella wrote: On May 17, 2012, at 2:29 PM, David Nalley wrote: [lots of snippage below] On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Robert Schweikert wrote: My suggestion would be to go with a 6 month time based release cycle and also decide on a version numbering scheme.

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-17 Thread John Kinsella
On May 17, 2012, at 2:29 PM, David Nalley wrote: > [lots of snippage below] > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Robert Schweikert wrote: >> My suggestion would be to go with a 6 month time based release cycle and >> also decide on a version numbering scheme. >> >> X.Y.Z >> >> - X : increases when

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-17 Thread David Nalley
[lots of snippage below] On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Robert Schweikert wrote: > A release a month does not work for packagers. With CloudStack code being > open source it can be included in distributions. If there is a release every > month packagers will quickly feel like they are chasing t

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Adrian Cole
great! thanks. -A On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, David Nalley wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Adrian Cole wrote: >> To Chip's point, perhaps some wiki or otherwise that helps gather the >> missing pieces for ASF transition could be handy.  A lot of folks want to >> get involved, a

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread David Nalley
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Adrian Cole wrote: > To Chip's point, perhaps some wiki or otherwise that helps gather the > missing pieces for ASF transition could be handy.  A lot of folks want to > get involved, and so perhaps a community 'help wanted' could make it easy > for them to. > > Fo

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Russell
(757) 275-7523 Cell: (757) 647-6236 Fax: (757) 486-2318 -Original Message- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:34 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward So for those that have already starte

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Adrian Cole
eds CloudStack and CloudStack needs the community. > > +1 for ASF > > > > Regards > > > > > > -Original Message----- > > From: James Kahn [mailto:jk...@idea11.com.au] > > Sent: 15 May 2012 06:57 > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Schweikert
Hi, On 05/14/2012 03:06 PM, David Nalley wrote: [snip] The concern is that there is a fairly significant amount of work to be done to generate an Apache CloudStack release - a good deal of which will be trial and error and completely new processes. By way of reference - it appears that Apache O

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Chip Childers
oved to ASF sooner > rather than later. > The community needs CloudStack and CloudStack needs the community. > +1 for ASF > > Regards > > > -Original Message- > From: James Kahn [mailto:jk...@idea11.com.au] > Sent: 15 May 2012 06:57 > To: cloudstack-dev@incuba

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-15 Thread Tamas Monos
] Sent: 15 May 2012 06:57 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward David, I think some lag between the last Citrix release and the first Apache release is unavoidable. I think it's in CloudStack's best interest if the lag is as short

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread James Kahn
Cheers, JK. -Original Message- From: David Nalley Reply-To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 1:51 PM To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward > >Hi Chip - your post reminded me that perhap

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > David, > > My 2 cents (and possibly drawing flames myself): > > During the transition period (and beyond), Citrix is going to do what it > needs to do as a commercial entity.  While this list is intended to focus > on the ASF project itself,

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread David Chamard
eers, > JK. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Chip Childers > Reply-To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > > Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 6:15 AM > To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases goi

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread Patrice Breton
, not less. My two cents, Patrice - Original Message - From: "James Kahn" To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:09:25 PM Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward David, I'm not sure how this fits with the Apache model, but as a user o

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread Adrian Cole
or > so for these to be released. Release early, release often. > > Cheers, > JK. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Chip Childers > Reply-To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" > > Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 6:15 AM > To: &quo

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread James Kahn
Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 6:15 AM To: "cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward >David, > >My 2 cents (and possibly drawing flames myself): > >During the transition period (and beyond), Citrix is going to do what it >needs to

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread Chip Childers
David, My 2 cents (and possibly drawing flames myself): During the transition period (and beyond), Citrix is going to do what it needs to do as a commercial entity. While this list is intended to focus on the ASF project itself, it's going to take time for an official Apache release to be approv

Re: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Geoff Higginbottom wrote: > My concern here is that the roadmap has lots of new features, and we do not > want to be waiting 6 months for the next release which was due out in May > > Geoff > A valid point - though it's worth pointing out that the roadmap you ar

RE: [DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Subject: [DISCUSS] releases going forward Hi folks, We had some chatter on private@ list regarding the approrpiateness of announcing the 3.0.2 release on the ASF-hosted lists - and that turned into a discussion of where we go from here with regards to releases with a few opinions circling on whether

[DISCUSS] releases going forward

2012-05-14 Thread David Nalley
Hi folks, We had some chatter on private@ list regarding the approrpiateness of announcing the 3.0.2 release on the ASF-hosted lists - and that turned into a discussion of where we go from here with regards to releases with a few opinions circling on whether we should assume that it's the last rel