Re: stable release cadence

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:44:30PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> All,
> 
> on the hackathon we discussed this topic. With the rate of changes
> going into the stable trees not being as high anymore as a few
> years ago, we settled on trying to stick to a 4 month release
> cycle going forward. Of course, issues like the currently severely
> lagging osstest can always lead to delays, and we're not intending
> to release not properly tested code just because the schedule
> says so. But the intention is to at least initiate the process of
> preparing stable releases mainly based on time, i.e. in particular
> not taking into account the (possibly small) set of accumulated
> changes.
> 
> If anyone is heavily objecting to this, or foresees other kinds of
> problems with this scheme - please speak up soon!

Just +1 on this.

Thank you!
> 
> Regards, Jan
> 
> 
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