[Evergreen-general] Evergreen 3.9 release schedule

[Mike Rylander]

Good evening, all.

We're nearing the end (T-minus-5.5 hours) of Feature Freeze Day, which
means if you're a committer and you want to get any last branches in,
it needs to happen soon!  I wouldn't call foul if something went in
before midnight tonight.

Thanks to all who have provided time for coding, testing,
documentation, feedback, review and committing over the last few weeks
(and months or years, for some branches!).  Evergreen 3.9 will be
better for every minute you've spent.

Have a good evening, and rest up for Bug Squashing Week!

--
Mike Rylander
Research and Development Manager
Equinox Open Library Initiative
1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
work: miker at equinoxOLI.org
personal: mrylander at gmail.com
https://equinoxOLI.org

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 6:12 PM Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> First, let me thank everyone that participated in the Feedback Fest
> for this release cycle, but especially Terran McCanna for her
> (seemingly tireless) work both organizing the Fest and recording our
> collective work.  Feedback Fest helped us stabilize a lot of
> outstanding branches, both features and fixes, and helped identify
> areas that need more attention.
>
> By my count on master, we've merged 36 branches, with 83 commits in
> total, since the start of Feedback Fest.  There are probably more
> patches that only applied to rel_3_8 or before, as well.  That's a lot
> of good work over the last two weeks, but I want to see if we can go
> even bigger for 3.9.
>
> Currently feature freeze scheduled for this coming Monday, March 28,
> with the first beta to be cut on Wednesday.  I'd like to shift that by
> two days for each, to Wednesday and Friday (morning) respectively, as
> long as that won't cause too much pain to Bug Squashing Week server
> builders.  The purpose of this is to give us a couple more days to get
> new feature branches in before the cut-off.  There are several
> Wishlist bugs that are currently both signed off and pull-requested,
> and if any committers have the time to apply to the 3.9 effort, that
> is where it would make the most impact at this stage of the release
> cycle.
>
> So here is my plea to all committers: if you can, please take some
> time to look at the Wishlist LP bugs on the list linked below.  If
> those are all committed or claimed via assignment, then others are
> fair game, of course.  Please note, though, that we'll still have
> about a month to address the non-feature branches, as well as new bugs
> that may pop up, so let's focus on completed features that are waiting
> in the wings.
>
> As a suggestion when evaluating feature branches for merge, remember
> that the staff client is in a time of flux so there may be branches
> that have AngJS implementation but no Angular equivalent.  In that
> case, please make sure that either the implementation is trivial (and
> if so, in your judgment, feel free to add it with the merge) or it's
> not yet possible because there is no Angular version of the interface.
> If there is an Angular version but the implementation doesn't seem
> trivial then it seems best to kick it back for later given our time
> constraints.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bugs?orderby=-heat&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.structural_subscriber=&field.tag=signedoff&field.omit_dupes=on
>
> Thanks, all, and have a great weekend!
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
> Research and Development Manager
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
> 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> work: miker at equinoxOLI.org
> personal: mrylander at gmail.com
> https://equinoxOLI.org
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:29 PM Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good afternoon, Evergreeners!
> >
> > On behalf of the release team, I propose the following release process
> > and schedule for Evergreen 3.9:
> >
> > 2022-03-14 - Feedback Fest
> > 2022-03-21 - Feature Slush and Cleanup Week 1 (contributors finish up
> > features after FF)
> > 2022-03-28 - Feature Freeze and String Slush
> > 2022-03-30 - Beta 1 Release
> > 2022-04-04 - Bug Squashing Week
> > 2022-04-11 - Cleanup Week 2 (committers/RMs continue BSW work)
> > 2022-04-20 - Release Candidate and String Freeze
> > 2022-04-27 - Final Release
> >
> > As with all Evergreen releases the details are subject to change based
> > on events on the ground, but hopefully this schedule strikes a balance
> > between momentum and available release team time.
> >
> > If you have features you very much want to see in 3.9 please have them
> > pull-requested by 2022-03-21 at the very latest, but the earlier the
> > better!
> >
> > Thanks, all!
> >
> > --
> > Mike Rylander
> > Research and Development Manager
> > Equinox Open Library Initiative
> > 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> > work: miker at equinoxOLI.org
> > personal: mrylander at gmail.com
> > https://equinoxOLI.org