[Swift-devel] Release strategy

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 13:09 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> This sounds good to me.
> 
> In the past, one of the things that contributed to having so many release
> candidates was lack of confidence in the test suite. There was an idea that
> for a swift release to be tested well, it needed to be run by real users
> with real scripts on a cluster.

Right. And I think it was much a function of how stable something we
call a release must be. However, we didn't quite have any objective way
of judging the stability.

I think it is still a hard problem. However, I see that few of our users
are using 0.94 and most are using a 0.95 RC. So our confidence of how
stable 0.95 is before being pushed to the users is irrelevant. Most
users already use it (probably).

On that last part, it may be useful to know what the breakdown is. Do we
have any data from usage tracking on that?

Mihael