Hi Frank, thanks for the explanation. Makes sense :+1:
Have a nice weekend. Morris 2013/10/5 Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Frank, > > > > > > Is there now a stable6 branch, or how is this handled? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Morris > > > > > > > > > 2013/9/18 Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Owncloud mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Owncloud mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Owncloud mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Owncloud mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >
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