[Windmill-dev] Release process going forward

[Adam Christian]

I agree, we need to get a release out the door so that we can  
iterate. If it isn't absolutely critical I won't be making any more  
fixes and will start logging things to be done in the next cut.

I'm fine with the unittest rule, but using the checkin I did today as  
an example -- I think it would take more time to come up with a  
unittest than it did doing the fixing.. so this piece is going to  
require some judgement as time is precious!

Adam

On Oct 15, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> I'm getting fairly annoyed with how long it's taking us to release  
> 0.2.
>
> We're going to have bugs in whatever we release, the trick is to  
> have a good plan in place for bugfix releases and new work going  
> forward, which we don't have.
>
> Here is what i propose as a plan for 0.X.x bugfix releases.
>
>  * Automated "push button" build/verifcation/unittest and upload to  
> PyPI ( I already have one such script for functest ).
>       -- This means that if a fix is important we can push a  
> release in minutes.
>  * Every bugfix has to be checked in with a unittest.
>  * EVERY BUGFIX HAS TO BE CHECKED IN WITH A UNITTEST
>       -- The only way we're going to reduce the chance of  
> regressions is to require that bugfixes have unittests checked in  
> and slowly improve our coverage.
>  * If there have been any checkins at the end of the week and we  
> haven't already pushed out a release that week we'll just take the  
> changes that did make it in and push out the 0.X.x release.
>
> What we have been calling "0.3" should be called "0.Twisted". The  
> bucket for 0.3 service work is too big and there is a good amount  
> of service work that all depends on each other. This doesn't leave  
> much room for an interim release with IDE features that will get  
> accomplished in the interim.
>
> All feature work will be done in branches going forward, when we  
> feel some of these features are ready we'll merge them in to trunk  
> and push a 0.X release.
>
> Questions? Comments? Hate Mail?
>
> -Mikeal
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