[sakai2-tcc] Proposal: release Sakai 2.9.0 on Friday, November 9 barring any new blockers (Voting now open)

[Matthew Jones]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> +1 but I think we need 2.9.1 out ASAP, like Aaron mentioned.
>
> It would be nice to really 'release early, release often' and have more
> than one or two maintenance releases of 2.9.
>

The release early, release often is more about getting bugs fixed, getting
individual jiras verified, getting fixes merged into the 2.9.x branches and
getting all of the changes documented. All of this effort aside from Neal
is volunteered by the community and some weeks seem to have more time from
the community than others. The release team will need to determine what
criteria for making a 2.9.1 release. As of now, everything we expect to
have in a release (that was verified and ready to merge) is in the release.
I don't know of anything anyone is sitting on waiting in the wings to
immediately merge for 2.9.1, but we'll find out.

Re this:
>
> Also the actual release process (from branch management, to cutting
> releases) is almost entirely just Sam and myself which is far from ideal.
> In the past, Anthony helped out significantly with this, and ideally Neal
> would be able to assist, but it still feels like this *could* be a few
> months from happening. I'm planning on spending a day or two in North
> Carolina next week with Neal and Aaron to start on some of the more
> technical aspects of the release process. These were the 3-6 month goals
> the TCC initially set out in the CLECC onboarding.
>
>
> Could we discuss those on list before anything is implemented? I think we
> rushed though parts of the changes for 2.9 which ended up causing some
> problems early on. It could be streamlined, definitely.
>

Discuss what specifically? I don't believe anything substantial would
change for the 2.9 process but it would be useful to have someone else
involved in merging and releasing indies. I think there should be a lot of
changes for 2.10 which would for sure be on list or at a venue with a large
number of TCC members (some upcoming conference), but I don't believe that
discussion would be started until at least January.
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