Re: [Xen-devel] [VOTE] Release cycle scheme

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Wei Liu wrote:
> Hi committers,

I am not a xen.git committer, but I am the qemu-xen.git committer, and
since I maintain all the qemu-xen stable trees and releases, I think
that my vote should count, at least for this proposal.


> There doesn't seem to be consensus on how release cycle should be
> managed. In the survey [0] about release cycle there were following
> proposed schemes:
> 
> #1. 6 months release cycle + current stable release scheme
> #2. 6 months release cycle + LTS scheme
> #3. 6 months release cycle + extended security support
> #4. 9 months release cycle + current stable release scheme (no change
>     at all)
> 
> And the tally:
> 
>               #1      #2      #3      #4
> George                +1      +2              -2
> Dario         +1      +2              -2
> Stefano               +1      +2              -2
> Ian C         +1      +1      +1      -1
> Olaf          +1       0      +1       0
> Juergen                0      -1              +1
> Ian J         +2      +1      +1      -2
> Andrew                +1      +1              -1
> Jan           -1      -1       0      +1
> 
> 
> There are comments made by individuals that couldn't be clearly
> represent in tally. The most acceptable option to stable tree
> maintainers is #1.
> 
> So I propose we use the following scheme:
> 
> - 6 months release cycle from unstable branch.
>   - 4 months development.
>   - 2 months freeze.
>   - Eat into next cycle if doesn't release on time.

+2


> - Fixed cut-off date: the Fridays of the week in which the last day of
>   March and September falls.

+1


> - No more freeze exception, but heads-up mails about freeze will be
>   sent a few weeks before hand.

+1


> - Stable branch maintained for 18 months full support plus 18 months
>   security support. No mixed maintainership for stable trees.

-1


If I need to give an overall vote, I'll give +1.

 
> Please vote to ack or nack this proposal.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Wei.
> 
> [0]: <20151012173222.GE2421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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