Re: RFC: change to 6 months release cycle

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 18:43 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:

> # Proposed release cycle
> 
> Aim for 6 months release cycle -- 4 months development period, 2
> months hardening period. Make two releases per year.
> 
> Fixed hard cut-off date, no more freeze exception. Arrange RCs
> immediately after cut-off.
> 
> Take into account holiday seasons in US, Europe and China, the two
> cut-off dates are the Fridays in which that last day of March and
> September are in.

> Comments are welcome!
> 
+1

I do like a lot the fact that this, as Wei mentioned, gives us the
chance to (at least potentially) deliver new features and improvements
much faster/more frequent to downstreams and end users.

Also, I think the idea of code and feature freeze, with freeze
exceptions, was a good idea, and served us well for the first couple of
releases for which it's been in effect. However, lately, maybe also
because of changes/evolution of the project and the community, it has
IMO shown its limits, and did cause issues, so I'd really love ditching
that.

Regards,
Dario

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