GSIP 168

GSIP 168 - Skip beta releases and remove feature freeze

Overview

Proposed By

Andrea Aime

Assigned to Release

This proposal is for GeoServer 2.13.

State

• Under Discussion
• In Progress
• Completed
• Rejected
• Deferred

Motivation

The current release procedure requires us to cut a beta release and have a freeze of the developer branch for a couple of weeks, until the RC is released, to focus developer attentions on bug fixes.

However, in practice users have not been testing the beta and reporting bugs in a long while, making the freeze and extra releases unnecessary complications.

Proposal

The release process will be amended as follows (modified parts in bold):

Prerelease

• Month -6: master open for development
• Month -1: month: release candidate is made on new branch
• Month 1: (start of month): second release candidate is made, if there are sufficient changes to warrant it.

Release

• Month 1: initial stable release (aim for one month after the first release candidate)

Backwards Compatibility

No backwards compatibility issues found.

Feedback

Voting

Project Steering Committee:

• Alessio Fabiani: +1
• Andrea Aime: +1
• Ben Caradoc-Davies: +1
• Brad Hards: +0
• Christian Mueller:
• Ian Turton: +1
• Jody Garnett: +1
• Jukka Rahkonen: +1
• Kevin Smith: +1
• Simone Giannecchini: +1

And from the GeoTools PMC:

• Justin Deoliveira

Links

• Email Discussion
• GeoServer Pull Request
• GeoTools Pull Request