0.10 release process - time based release?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:35 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> I'd like to suggest a change for the release process of bzr - time based
> releases.
> 
> Heres the crux of what I suggest:
> 
> We release 0.10 Monday September 4th.
> To achieve that, 0.10 rc1 will be released August 28th,
> bzr.dev will be frozen for all bar non-risky bugfixes from August 21st.
> 
> This gives us 3 weeks for major feature landings, and 2 weeks to recover
> from any instability.
> 
> I'm offering to be the release mgr for this release, as I've done time
> based releases before. The key things I'll want to enable me to do this
> are:
>  * Agreement from the community on these dates.
>  * Agreement from folk with commit access to bzr.dev that I can rollback
> commits after the 21st if they should not have qualified for committing.
> (e.g. if they cause regressions).
> 
> We should still set feature goals for 0.10 - I'm over at Martins now
> chatting with him about what might make a good set - we'll send that to
> the list presently with our thoughts, so we can bounce it around and get
> a good list together. However, to ensure the release happens, any
> feature that isn't ready will just get punted to 0.11.
Good idea - releases have been too infrequent imho.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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