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archived-at: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:27:24 -0000

+1
Thanks Rohit!

> On Nov 30, 2017, at 4:43 AM, Nicolas Vazquez <Nicolas.Vazquez@shapeblue.c=
om> wrote:
> =

> +1
> =

> =

> Thanks Rohit!
> =

> ________________________________
> From: Rohit Yadav <bhaisaab@apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 7:14:54 AM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: [PROPOSE] RM for 4.11
> =

> Hi All,
> =

> I=92d like to put myself forward as release manager for 4.11. The 4.11
> releases will be the next major version LTS release since 4.9 and will be
> supported for 20 months per the LTS manifesto [2] until 1 July 2019.
> =

> Daan Hoogland and Paul Angus will assist during the process and all of us
> will be the gatekeepers for reviewing/testing/merging the PRs, others will
> be welcome to support as well.
> =

> As a community member, I will try to help get PRs reviewed, tested and
> merged (as would everyone else I hope) but with an RM hat on I would like
> to see if we can make that role less inherently life-consuming and put the
> onus back on the community to get stuff done.
> =

> Here the plan:
> 1. As RM I put forward the freeze date of the 8th of January 2018, hoping
> for community approval.
> 2. After the freeze date (8th Jan) until GA release, features will not be
> allowed and fixes only as long as there are blocker issues outstanding.
> Fixes for other issues will be individually judged on their merit and ris=
k.
> 3. RM will triage/report critical and blocker bugs for 4.11 [4] and
> encourage people to get them fixed.
> 4. RM will create RCs and start voting once blocker bugs are cleared and
> baseline smoke test results are on par with previous 4.9.3.0/4.10.0.0 smo=
ke
> test results.
> 5. RM will allocate at least a week for branch stabilization and testing.
> At the earliest, on 15th January, RM will put 4.11.0.0-rc1 for voting from
> the 4.11 branch, and master will be open to accepting new features.
> 6. RM will repeat 3-5 as required. Voting/testing of -rc2, -rc3 and so on
> will be created as required.
> 7. Once vote passes - RM will continue with the release procedures [1].
> =

> In conjunction with that, I also propose and put forward the date of 4.12
> cut-off as 4 months [3] after GA release of 4.11 (so everyone knows when
> the next one is coming hopefully giving peace of mind to those who have
> features which would not make the proposed 4.11 cut off).
> =

> I=92d like the community (including myself and colleagues) to:
> - Up to 8th January, community members try to review, test and merge as
> many fixes as possible, while super-diligent to not de-stabilize the mast=
er
> branch.
> - Engage with gatekeepers to get your PRs reviewed, tested and merged
> (currently myself, Daan and Paul, others are welcome to engage as well). =
Do
> not merge the PRs
> - A pull request may be reverted where the author(s) are not responding a=
nd
> authors may be asked to re-submit their changes after taking suitable
> remedies.
> - Find automated method to show (at a glance) statuses of PRs with respect
> to:
>  =B7 Number of LGTMs
>  =B7 Smoke tests
>  =B7 Functional tests
>  =B7 Travis tests passing
>  =B7 Mergeability
> - Perform a weekly run of a component-test matrix against the master bran=
ch
> before Jan 8th cut off (based on current hypervisors including basic (KVM)
> and advanced networking).
> - Continue to fix broken tests.
> =

> Thoughts, feedback, comments?
> =

> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Release+Proced=
ure
> [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS
> [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Releases
> [4] The current list of blocker and critical bugs currently stands as per
> the following list:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=3Dproject%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%2=
0AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progr=
ess%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical)%20AND=
%20affectedVersion%20in%20(4.10.0.0%2C%204.10.1.0%2C%204.11.0.0%2C%20Future=
)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC
> =

> Regards,
> Rohit Yadav
> =

> Nicolas.Vazquez@shapeblue.com =

> www.shapeblue.com
> ,   =

> @shapeblue
> =

> =

> =


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