[Owncloud] feature freeze

Sat Oct 5 10:38:23 UTC 2013

Hi Frank,

thanks for the explanation. Makes sense :+1:

Have a nice weekend.

Morris

2013/10/5 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>

> Yes. That's an option. But there are 2 problems with that.
>
> 1. We have a ton of bugs to fix for ownCloud 6. If we branch now than we
> have to do this in two places (or three if stable5 backporting is needed.)
> This is unnecessary work.
>
> 2. I really want to motivate people with helping to stabilize and bugfix
> ownCloud 6. If we open up master for feature development now than no one
> will care about the next stable release and all the users with bugs. We
> have over 700 open issues for core alone at the moment. We have to bring
> this significantly down before the ownCloud 6 release and before we start
> to work on ownCloud 7 features.
>
> I hope that makes sense.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 05.10.2013, at 11:29, Morris Jobke <morris.jobke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > my thought about the release management was the following:
> >
> > If the feature freeze is in action an new stable branch is splitted of.
> So nobody can merge new features by accident. Pending pull request haven't
> to be stalled and can merged into master, because the new stable branch is
> already there. And if it's a fix it has to be backported in the usual way
> (mentioning you and ask if this is a backport critical fix - cherry pick
> the stuff and just put in on top of the stable6 branch). How were ready to
> merge pull request (that includes features not fixes) handled in previous
> releases?
> >
> > Sorry for my question - I just want to learn best practises :)
> >
> > Morris
> >
> >
> > 2013/10/5 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>
> > Hi Morris,
> >
> > we are now in feature freeze. This means that no more feature commits
> are allowed from now on.
> > This also means that the real fun part begins now which is testing and
> bugfixing during the alpha/beta/RC cycle. :-)
> >
> > We are branching a stable6 branch when we are very near the ownCloud 6
> final release. In the meantime everyone should concentrate on fixing and
> polishing the code in master as much as possible.
> >
> > Let me know if you have more questions :-)
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> > On 04.10.2013, at 23:52, Morris Jobke <morris.jobke at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Frank,
> > >
> > > Is there now a stable6 branch, or how is this handled?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Morris
> > >
> > >
> > > 2013/9/18 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > unfortunately we are running late with some features especially the
> improved public API. We are making great progress bu we also need time to
> port the apps. Because of that we are moving the feature freeze by 2 week.
> > >
> > >
> > > The new schedule is:
> > >
> > > Oct. 4th Feature freeze. All new features has to be merged by then.
> Please submit your pull requests as soon as possible so that the reviewers
> have time to review and to give you feedback. If you are working on bigger
> features please inform me as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Oct. 7th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 1
> > >
> > > Oct. 14th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 2
> > >
> > > Oct. 21th Release ownCloud 6 beta 1 Only important bugfixes are
> allowed from now on.
> > >
> > > Oct. 28th Release ownCloud 6 RC 1 Only showstopper bugfixes are
> allowed from now on.
> > >
> > > Nov. 5th Release ownCloud 6 final.
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope that works for everyone.
> > >
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> > > On 25.08.2013, at 13:40, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > it is time to plan the ownCloud 6 release schedule. We are already
> late with this release because we spend quite some time for QA of ownCloud
> 5. This has to and will be better this time.
> > > >
> > > > The plan is:
> > > >
> > > > Sep. 20th Feature freeze. All new features has to be merged by then.
> Please submit your pull requests as soon as possible so that the reviewers
> have time to review and to give you feedback. If you are working on bigger
> features please inform me as soon as possible.
> > > >
> > > > Sep. 23th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 1
> > > >
> > > > Sep. 30th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 2
> > > >
> > > > Oct. 7th Release ownCloud 6 beta 1 Only important bugfixes are
> allowed from now on.
> > > >
> > > > Oct. 14th Release ownCloud 6 RC 1 Only showstopper bugfixes are
> allowed from now on.
> > > >
> > > > Oct. 22th Release ownCloud 6 final.
> > > >
> > > > The final release date might be moved depending on the quality that
> we reached until then.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know if you have any questions.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Frank
> > >
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