New proposed release cycle for IcedTea-Web

[Deepak Bhole]

* Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> [2012-05-22 11:42]:
> On 05/22/2012 05:22 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> >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.
> With 6months I will be able to finish SplashScreen, with 4 I'm afraid I will not finish it in time :(
> 

How about 5-mo for this one since it is rather short notice? With 5, we
would release on August 7th and branch around July 17th, so just below 2
months from now for branch.

> >
> >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.
> So my suggestion here is 4-6 according to features :)

I think that would contradict the notion of non-negotiable release
cycles. An open-ended "4-6 according to features" once again starts to
drag us into feature based releases which I would like to avoid as it
has not worked for us in the past.

Cheers,
Deepak