Nigel Kersten
2011-Mar-17 00:16 UTC
[Puppet Users] Announce: Timed Puppet Labs Release Cycle
We''ve been talking about this for far too long, but now we''re actually doing it. Every 4 weeks we will be releasing an RC1 (Release Candidate 1) of all of our open source products, so long as at least one commit was made to that project during the last 4 weeks. Today you''ll be seeing Puppet, Facter and Dashboard RC1s. Once an RC1 has been released, we will only fix bugs introduced since the last release in further RCs. Once an RC has survived without being replaced for 7 days, and we haven''t been informed of any RC-introduced isues, we will release the Final Release for that release. I''m going to walk through a hypothetical scenario that might make that a bit more concrete for you all. Mar 16 - Puppet 2.6.7 RC1 released Mar 17 - Samantha Sysadmin discovers issue #1337 that was introduced since Puppet 2.6.6 Mar 18 - Puppet 2.6.7 RC2 released, addresses #1337 Mar 21 - Olga Operator discovers issue #1339 that was introduced since Puppet 2.6.6 Mar 22 - Puppet 2.6.7 RC3 released, addresses #1339 Mar 29 - No further RC-introduced issues known, Puppet 2.6.7 released, as it''s been 7 days since Mar 22. The obvious question now is, what happens if we keep finding more and more RC-introduced issues, and the 7-day rule means that we end up encroaching upon the time for the *next* release? Basically 21 days after the RC1 is released, we make a decision whether we abandon the previous RC-series, or the next one. We''re referring to this as Release Candidate Thunderdome. "Two releases enter, one release leaves." We are going to be publishing this all on the wiki, but I wanted to iterate a bit on any questions you all have before that. This also doesn''t address the timing of releases such as 2.7.0, 2.8.0, etc. That will be coming in a later email. -- Nigel Kersten Product, Puppet Labs @nigelkersten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.