New proposed release cycle for IcedTea-Web

[Deepak Bhole]

* Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> [2012-05-22 11:31]:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> The past, IcedTea-Web releases have been rather sporadic and I would like
> to address this with a firm release cycle.
> 
> I was thinking that from here on, we do a forced release every 4-6
> months, with branching happening 3 weeks before release.
> 
> Whichever period we pick, the release date will be firm. The only
> exceptions allowed will be critical blockers/regressions. If features do
> not make it in before branching, they get pushed to next release.
> 
> With 6 months, the next release will be on September 4th 2012.
> With 4 months, the next release will be on July 3rd 2012.
> 
> I had 6 months in mind initially, but given the pace at which things are
> moving, I think 4 is more suited in the short-term for the next 2-3
> releases.
> 

Couple of additional notes:

The above only applies to minor releases (i.e. 1.X, 1.Y, etc.).
The micro releases (1.X.A, 1.X.B, 1.X.C) will not have a fixed schedule
and will be done as needed.

With the above in place, we would support n-2, n-1 and n with only
critical fixes (security, regressions, etc.) being allowed into release
branches.

Cheers,
Deepak