[Swift-devel] Release strategy

[Yadu Nand Babuji]

Hi Mihael,

So, testing -> RC -> Release, but the time to spent in RC should be 
brought down,
and that needs better testing with clearly defined test areas.

-Yadu

On 12/15/2014 04:10 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One comment. I'm not sure if I am against release candidates. However,
> we have, I think, gone overboard with them in that many releases were
> held because maybe there were bugs, except the rate at which they were
> uncovered was very low.
>
> So I think we should have RCs. But we shouldn't have 6 RCs, and we
> shouldn't keep an RC without a release for 6 months.
>
> Mihael
>
> On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 15:58 -0600, Yadu Nand Babuji wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Based on the discussion we had on the Friday meeting, here are some of
>> the suggested changes to release
>> strategy and versioning. Please correct me if I got any of the following
>> wrong.
>>
>> Major version will denote language changes that will likely break
>> backward compatibility.
>> Minor version increments will indicate feature enhancements.
>> Sub-minor versions will be assigned after a release has been made, and
>> will represent bug-fixes.
>> testing versions for the next release which will be closely following
>> the repository.
>> No more RCs
>>
>> We will not be using the release-candidate numbering which has put
>> releases in perpetual limbo, instead
>> testing releases with no explicit numbering will be used. For example
>> the next planned release 0.96 would
>> have a testing branch 0.96-testing. Once planned features have gone in
>> and are tested, 0.96 will be released,
>> with bug fixes following it, when identified.
>>
>> I will work with the site admins (midway, beagle, LCRC etc..) to ensure
>> that we have the latest stable release
>> as well as the testing package for the next release available on the
>> login-nodes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yadu
>>
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