This is just a draft version put together to capture the feedback provided during the meeting and present my point of view based on my experience in other open source projects
Current state
- Patches are submitted via gerrit
- Architecture is described on a wiki and (sometimes) later migrated to read the docs
- We have a waterfall-ish development model with clearly distinguish planning, designing, implementation and testing phases
- There is a lot of paper work to be done at every milestone
- Features for every release are described globally (per release) and approved by TSC in the beginning of each release
- We have 2-3 releases per year
Proposal
- Keep 3 releases in a year:
- W8
- W24
- W43
- Divide the release in 3 sections:
- R - 16 Release kickoff
- R - 14 Global requirements defined
- R - 10 Spec freeze
- R - 5 Feature freeze
- R - 3 Beginning of RC-phase (1 RC every week)
- R - 0 - final testing, release notes and Sign-off