+1 There will always be another upstream fix to wait for, a short Karaf update cycle seems to be the best approach to avoiding extended delays.
--J On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in big favor of having a hard release cycle on 6 weeks (minimum I'd > actually prefer 4 ;) ) > Regarding the thoughts about 3party dependencies, actually it's the reason > we don't get our own bugfixes out fast right now. > Actually I'd say screw it. No more waiting for 3rd party dependencies ... > get the stuff out fast cause 4-6 weeks later you have the next > release picking up the issue. > > regards, Achim > > > 2014-10-08 8:18 GMT+02:00 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>: >> >> That's why we have an extend of 2 weeks to deal with other projects. >> >> Regards >> JB >> >> On 10/08/2014 08:16 AM, Christian Schneider wrote: >>> >>> Generally I agree that we should aim for such a cycle. >>> I only hope it is possible as we depend a lot on other projects that we >>> bundle. So a lot of the time a release waits on fixes or releases in >>> upstream projects. >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> Am 08.10.2014 07:52, schrieb Jean-Baptiste Onofré: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Users complained about the variable and long delays between Karaf >>>> releases. It's a fair comment and it's something that we have to >>>> improve. >>>> >>>> I propose the following new policy about the releases cycle: >>>> - for "active" branches (3.0.x and 2.4.x), I propose a release every 6 >>>> weeks, with maximum extend to 8 weeks. >>>> - for "eol" and "maintenance" branches (2.2.x and 2.3.x), it's "on >>>> demand", no strong cycle there. >>>> >>>> WDYT ? >>>> >>>> If everybody agrees, I will update the releases schedule page on the >>>> website. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> JB >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> [email protected] >> http://blog.nanthrax.net >> Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > > -- > > Apache Member > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & > Project Lead > blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> > > Software Architect / Project Manager / Scrum Master >
