Re: [RFC] 3.1 branching

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On tis, 2008-09-23 at 23:30 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
>> PRE, to me, means "we think it is stable, what do you think?".
>> A development release, to me, means "we are done adding features, please
>> help us with testing and polishing". And yes, I know that the
>> definitions at http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/ are somewhat
>> different. IIRC, I failed to convince others that mine are better :-)
>
> You are off-by-one from what we normally use
>
> DEVEL - We are still adding features, but this release is beleived to be
> reasonably stable suitable for evaluating what has been done so far.
>
> PRE - We are done adding features. Please help us hunting down the last
> bugs.
>
> RC - No more known bugs to fix. We think it's stable. Please verify.
>
> STABLE - We think it's stable production release.
>
>
> DEVEL releases is rarely needed as the nightly snapshot releases serves
> this purpose well. Came to light during the very extended Squid-3.0
> development cycle with lots of major restructuring and destabilization
> taking place..
>
>>> The non-major but important bugs can be fixed during DEVEL and PRE
>>> cycles. Branching is about features not bugs.
>> Agreed, except I do not think we should have any known important bugs
>> when doing the first PRE (if we do PRE at all).
>
> Yes. It's not much use in releaseing a PRE with known major blockers.
>

Well, we all seem to agree on no bugs above a certain level, but differ
as to what the maximum rating should be :-)

I've been basing my standards on the bugzilla importance labels.
  PRE requiring:
    0 'blocker', 'critical', 'major'
    judgement call on those labeled 'normal' or lower (few as possible)

My PRE list is the one linked from RoadMap under "bugzapping".
(all bugs >minor, either existing in or targeted at a fix 3.1)

My RC list extends that to include the 3.0 bugs, so 3.1.RC1 won't go out
until there are no big bugs inherited from 3.0.

Maybe we should call a bug sprint with PRE1 release.

Amos

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