Small adjustment to LTS announcement process

Development
#1

Hi devs,

Right now, on https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices we have:

We announce the new LTS (N.10.x) once N+1.0 is released. Rationale:

  • We need to have feedback on a release before it can be considered super stable and thus we usually need a few bug fix releases before a version can be considered a good LTS. This gives us one month to release additional bugfix releases for N.10.x in case it’s needed.
    …

Since we now have 2 bugfix releases planned in December before EOY, I propose to change the strategy to always announce the LTS at the end of the year, once N.10.2 is released.

I consider that 2 bug fix releases is enough to call it LTS as a general rule. In the event that we’d find a blocker we’d release a new bugfix release quickly.

WDYT?

Thanks

#2

Fine with that. It just means there won’t be any stable branch in that timeframe but it’s OK.

#3

yes, no stable but a super stable during the month of January, which is ok indeed.

#4

+1

#5

Process proposal:

Update 2020-01-02:

  • Check if there are important issues to release in the previous LTS branch and do a last release if need be (proposed by Thomas).
#6

+1

Thanks,
Marius

#7

Done and https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/VersioningAndReleasePractices#HReleaseCyclesandReleaseStrategy updated.

#8

I’ve changed it slightly to:

** Update [[the download page>>xwiki:Download.WebHome]] to have a single version (the LTS)
** Update API pages: [[Platform API>>platform:DevGuide.API]] and [[Rendering API>>rendering:Main.JavaDoc]]
** Make sure that N.10.2 is announced as the LTS in the forum post for the N.10.2 release
** Make sure that N.10.2 is announced as the LTS in the blog post for the N.10.2 release
** Check if there are important issues to release in the previous LTS branch and schedule a last release if need be
#9
  • We also need to change the Debian LTS repository to point fo 11.10.x (I will take care of it)
  • Update https://hub.docker.com/_/xwiki to make “lts” point to 11.10.2 I guess
#10

Indeed, good points. I’m doing docker. Adding to the doc too.

#11

And also remove the previous N-1.x tags and update the build.gradle and remove the directory from git too. Doing it.

#12

hmm… Actually we should do that only after the last N-1.x bugfix release has been done, so that it can be built by dockerhub.

#13

I’ve now added:

** Change the Debian LTS repository to point to N.10.2
** Update the [[official Docker XWiki image>>https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/xwiki]] to change the ##lts## tags to point to N.10.2
*** Remove the ##lts## tags from the previous LTS version and move them to the new LTS version
*** Keep the ##stable## tags in the new LTS version until we release N+1.0
*** Keep the previous LTS version definitions until we release N+1.0