[openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle

Johannes Erdfelt johannes at erdfelt.com
Tue Feb 24 16:02:37 UTC 2015


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What this actually means:
> 
>    - Stop approving blueprints for specific stable releases, instead just
>    approve them and target them to milestones.
>       - Milestones stop becoming Kilo-1, Kilo-2, Kilo-3 etc. and just
>       become 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc.
>       - If something misses what was previously known as Kilo-3 it has to
>       wait a week for what for milestone 4.
>    - Development focuses on milestones only. So 6 week cycle with say 1
>    week of stabilization, finish things up before each milestone

What is the motiviation for having milestones at all?

At least in the Nova world, it seems like milestones mean nothing at
all. It's just something John Garbutt spends a lot of his time updating
that doesn't appear to provide any value to anyone.

JE




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