[CRIU] [RFC] Future CRIU releases

[Tycho Andersen]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:23:32PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've been playing the time-driven releases model for the past
> year and, at some sense, succeeded. However, it seems like the
> strict dates that were chosen were not 100% comfortable for all
> the parties.
> 
> Also there sometimes appeared the need to have some "quite new"
> functionality early (or -- during the one week feature freeze 
> period) and waiting till the next release was also not nice.
> 
> So this e-mail is a call for comments -- shall we continue the
> once-a-season releases as we do now, should we slightly fix it
> (e.g. by formalizing the -stable branches) or should we change
> it completely?

I like the fixed date release because it forces us to release stuff.
My experience is that everyone wants to wait for "one more bug fix" if
we don't have a timed release.

One solution to the "wait for next release" problem is just to release
more often, once every 1-2 months maybe instead of once every three
months? Of course, it's easy for me to suggest this since I don't have
to do any work maintaining releases :)

Another option would be to adjust the dates slightly, say Feb 1, May
1, August 1, Nov 1, which would perhaps align (or not align) with
holidays slightly better.

Tycho