In an attempt to be a bit more organized about FAS releases, give translators a chance to get their work in, etc, I'm going to propose a schedule for the next Fedora Account System release.
January 14, 2012 -- FUDCon hackfest day -- make a prerelease for people to see the process. Push to stg. January 15, 2012 -- last hackfest day of FUDCon -- bugfix for any stg issues, update stg with new prerelease if necessary. Announce to translators list that a release is coming up. January 16-18, 2012 -- Toshio on Vacation January 21, 2012 -- String freeze; announce string freeze to translators' list. January 31, 2012 -- Release FAS 0.8.11; push to production
You'll notice that there's no actual Feature Freeze in there, just a string freeze. So far, FAS hasn't had official feature freezes as our testing procedures have been to deploy to stg and then test new features and test that old features aren't obviously broken. We've been small enough that we've just held off on committing large changes at this time -- sticking with bugfixes or easily reviewed features instead.
If we get to the point where we have enough committers that this is a problem, we should think about having a trunk and a release branch but I don't think that time has arrived yet.
-Toshio
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:13:31 -0800 Toshio Kuratomi a.badger@gmail.com wrote:
In an attempt to be a bit more organized about FAS releases, give translators a chance to get their work in, etc, I'm going to propose a schedule for the next Fedora Account System release.
January 14, 2012 -- FUDCon hackfest day -- make a prerelease for people to see the process. Push to stg. January 15, 2012 -- last hackfest day of FUDCon -- bugfix for any stg issues, update stg with new prerelease if necessary. Announce to translators list that a release is coming up. January 16-18, 2012 -- Toshio on Vacation January 21, 2012 -- String freeze; announce string freeze to translators' list. January 31, 2012 -- Release FAS 0.8.11; push to production
You'll notice that there's no actual Feature Freeze in there, just a string freeze. So far, FAS hasn't had official feature freezes as our testing procedures have been to deploy to stg and then test new features and test that old features aren't obviously broken. We've been small enough that we've just held off on committing large changes at this time -- sticking with bugfixes or easily reviewed features instead.
If we get to the point where we have enough committers that this is a problem, we should think about having a trunk and a release branch but I don't think that time has arrived yet.
Sounds like a completely reasonable plan. ;)
kevin
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:27:24PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:13:31 -0800 Toshio Kuratomi a.badger@gmail.com wrote:
In an attempt to be a bit more organized about FAS releases, give translators a chance to get their work in, etc, I'm going to propose a schedule for the next Fedora Account System release.
January 14, 2012 -- FUDCon hackfest day -- make a prerelease for people to see the process. Push to stg.
Minor change: This will be Fri, January 13th as that's the first hackfest day. I've made this an "Infrastructure as Classroom" hackfest session. Basically, anyone who is new to making releases of free software or people who are interested in releasing FAS specifically, can come and watch me cut a FAS release. It'll be a pretty intro workshop mostly aimed at people who have never made a release of free software before and want to see the (hopefully simple steps) to make a release.
Sounds like a completely reasonable plan. ;)
Thanks!
Schedule is now up here: https://fedorahosted.org/fas/wiki/Releasing-0.8.11
-Toshio
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