From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Let's make our cycles shorter Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:03:35 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1v0ql0uw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7v62qzhqp4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vvcyyhq9q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git list To: Sebastien Douche X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 25 19:03:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QEPCR-0002ey-Nj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:03:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758652Ab1DYRDq (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:03:46 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:56979 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756220Ab1DYRDp (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:03:45 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649DF498C; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:05:46 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=8c1Kw+Q+8Xkpq9EmdwC12yMhU5o=; b=WvwDk2 k9EAi25Rq3nU1SyIxLIJUdIXJ5xN472pu8oWB6YpcYlnLSREy3XidaFD/nTP/lcD 906MwzBYCP/kI1MPC+fKV90VGMjoO4crBD70d1wCLnQA1FXC1No7k8A94xbCV3Rd bZ9TNVL2lhfaYqzyWaAzIwsXownAC6742SryA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Jb+9PKj5AewPKmrhHzKWAYKdLoCDFKoR Yr4FVswavpTM01i6LLIH5beCpl1/EFcz9uhbMz6f5/lvcYCSlGUqOeYt1TftlWbl BUFA7v8PHbNcqYOtbg5gt8O3v9YnDVfYOPFnb8PsWxdPUovrZ+jlF8Rz8k20sdN4 z48FLM+WWGQ= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AE6498B; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45A534989; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:05:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Sebastien Douche's message of "Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:34:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 41283002-6F5E-11E0-9745-E8AB60295C12-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sebastien Douche writes: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 00:35, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... > I was surprised to not read response, it's having sensitive impact on > the project. Hmm, what sensitive impact on which project do you have in mind? > Junio, it's effective now? The structure of clean-up, development, freeze and then release has always been in effect in this project, but historically the duration of the development stretch varied a lot from cycle to cycle. I just spelled the structure out for the next cycle, and tried to give some predictable bounds to that elastic development stretch, in order to force myself to stick to a schedule in which we can make measurable progress in reasonable amount of time. It does not mean that we won't be tackling issues that will take more than N weeks to perfect. Either a topic gets polished enough in a single cycle to graduate to 'master' before -rc0, or it keeps cooking in 'next' during the feature freeze, and will attempt to be in the release after that. I've tentatively set the following dates on my calendar, based on 9-week cycle: - Today is the beginning of week #1 for this cycle. - The entire month of May 2011 will be the development stretch (lasting up to Week #5 that ends May 29th). - Aim to tag 1.7.6-rc0 on June 1st, 2011, -rc1 on 8th, -rc2 on 15th. - Either tag 1.7.6 final on 19th or have -rc3 on 22nd and final on 26th of June. If you happen to use Google Calendar, you can paste: jfgbl2mrlipp4pb6ieih0qr3so@group.calendar.google.com in the "Other calendars" box (where a gray "Add a friend's calendar" appears), but you won't be missing much even if you don't (I only have week numbers and the target tagging dates, nothing more interesting than that).