Hi all,
I really would like to move forward with this proposal.
I’m currently having a lot of difficulties to get an idea of a plan on wich version of GeoServer/GeoTools schedule on my projects, so having a programmatic release project would be very welcomed and useful.
High automation also is a great idea, would very very helpful for the release process which usually takes a lot of time and resources.
I also volunteer to provide help as much as possible to have all of this implemented soon.
Regards,
Alessio.
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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime@anonymised.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com> wrote:
In general I think it looks great, a few things though. I think given the current effort to put out releases 1 month is probably asking a bit much given the resources we have on the project. So I think to do one month cycles we really do need to better automate our release process with a hudson job that does most of the work.
It would also be good to have some better defined (and perhaps stricter) guidelines about what is acceptable to commit given the current phase of an iteration. For instance obviously once we move to a stable or hardening phase GSIP’s that drastically alter the core are out of the question. It would be good if we had a more concrete definition of “drastically alter the core”. Like should we be strict and say stable/hardening means strictly only bug fixes? With a faster release cycle it could make more sense to have stricter guidelines since if you don’t get something into this release there is one not too far off. This is exactly why we ran into the fluerry of gsip issue… with another release 1.5 years away it certainly puts the pressure on to cram stuff in.
Anyways, great stuff. I like where this is going, big things from my standpoint.
- better automation of release, which i am happy to help with
- better guidelines for what type of development is acceptable during what phases
Fully agree on the higher automation (tried to discuss some ideas about it in my
original mail).About what is acceptable and not, what about the following:
- stable series: only bug fixes and new features that do not require API changes
or large patches to existing systems (that is, if you are contributing a new module
the patch can be as large as you want, but a “bug fix” that rewrites half of WFS
is not welcomed unless the PSC really really wants such change badly in)- trunk: free reign, but large changes still need a GSIP and reviews
- hardening: no new features, only bug fixing to make sure people concentrate on
that, if you have something new it has to go on trunk for the time beingThe above should be, imho, taken more or less as strict rules that the PSC should
try to enforce (the above, or whatever we come up with).
That said, the PSC should be allowed to decide outside of the above rules
in case of dire necessity (e.g., something that could threaten or damage the
project severely if not done outside of the rules).Cheers
Andrea
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