It looks like my question raised more questions than I had in mind. 1. What is the meaning of the fix version? 2. When do we move from beta to RC? 3. Where does the Quality tickets fit in all that?
*What is the meaning of the fix version?* It looks like we should just pick a definition and document it. My preference would be 'The version in which the item must be fixed' (e.g 4.0-beta if the ticket must be fixed in a beta release). *When do we move from beta to RC?* The 2 things that I can get from the Release Lifecycle page are: 1. *No flaky tests - All tests (Unit Tests and DTests) should pass consistently.* 2.* If there are no known bugs to be fixed before release, we promote to RC.* The first point is pretty clear, the second is a bit more vague. The main reason for that is probably that there is a choice to make here. There are some bugs that we cannot or chose to not fix in 4.0 (e.g. some LWT consistency issues during cluster changes). By consequence, I do not know if we can be more precise. We have to agree on which known bugs we want to fix on the release. Once they are fixed and we have the tests that pass constantly we should be able to cut an RC release. *Where does the Quality tickets fit in all that?* That is for me the tricky question because the `Quality tickets` are really about extending the test coverage and we probably did not think about that type of work when the Release Lifecycle page was written. We can decide to have (flaky tests + known bugs + increasing test coverage) in beta and fix the documentation tickets in RC while waiting for people to raise bugs or have (flaky tests + known bugs) in beta and (increasing test coverage + documentation tickets) in RC. I tend to prefer the (flaky tests + know bugs) in beta and (increasing test coverage + documentation tickets) in RC approach. It reduces the scope for the beta release and will increase our focus. Hopefully it might help us to move faster. I also hope that an RC release will push more people to test the release. Increasing our confidence in the stability of 4.0. What do you think?
