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Re: Suggestion: Track Subversion release process in our issue tracker

From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
Date: 2006-07-10 17:06:07 CEST

On 7/10/06, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
> I dunno about others, but I find it kind of hard to keep track of the status
> of any one of our releases as it going through the release process.
> Generally speaking, I have just as much information as the release manager's
> most recent status email. I propose that we use our issue tracker to track
> release status.

I think it's that the release process is too constipated. I'm not
sold that using Issuezilla is the solution here.

The release process should be:

 1. Someone says "I'm going to roll a release on Friday." to dev@svn
 2. People who want stuff fixed merge their changes into the
     appropriate branch by Friday.
 3. That person actually rolls a release on Friday.
 4. People vote here on dev@svn
 5. When there are enough +1s, the release is posted to
     subversion.tigris.org
 6. If there is a showstopper, then it gets added to STATUS
     and the process begins anew when #1 occurs again.

Anything more complicated is asking for trouble, IMO. The release
cycle should take no longer than a week at the most.

This is also why I'm in favor of just having 3 +1s across all
platforms to do the release - not have 3 +1s on every single platform.
 That decision has very strong negative implications on the length of
the release cycle. -- justin

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