Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Agree on David and Markus's time. These guys make the releases happen and
are heavily under appreciated and over stressed.

But it is quite scary we're relying on individuals performing manual tasks
to get the releases out. I hope that we can automate more of what they do.
The beauty of Maven/Tycho/Hudson is that you can automate everything from
source to download pages. We talk of the big red button, it would be great
if that's all it was.

D

On 13-07-03 1:55 PM, "Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>> ok, fair enough...but if the LTS has been investing so much time and
>>effort into
>> building a process for being able to release updates to simultaneous
>>releases,
>> will they assume that burden from the Planning Council eventually?
>
>No, not that I am aware of. As far as I am concerned, LTS is solving
>quite a different problem.
>
>> Will that effort be rolled back into the simultaneous release process
>>that the 
>> Planning Council currently takes care of?
>
>At this point in time, the LTS working group is still very much in
>start-up mode. They're still figuring out how to do the builds and manage
>the processes. 
>
>My advice is that any variant of the thought that somehow LTS will allow
>change to the simultaneous release process is wrong for at least the next
>year or two. I won't say never, but I certainly don't see it within any
>reasonable planning horizon.
> 
>> maybe a slight off topic, if so my apologies
>
>No problem at all.
>
>For the record, I _like_ the idea of trying to accelerate our releases to
>encourage more innovation and participation. But there are lots of moving
>parts, requirements, and expectations which need to be satisfied. And
>very limited resources to do them. As but one example, our entire
>community lean heavily on the time and personal commitment of David
>Williams and Markus Knauer. Asking them to do more does not seem
>reasonable. Perhaps this conversation will spur others to step forward to
>help.
> 
>
>
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