Re: New release plan

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> As you know, lately we are suffering a quality problem in releases. There
> are multiple things we need to do to fix that, such as more tests and early
> regression testing with plugins, but it's also clear that we need to adjust
> the release process.
>
> So this is the proposal to make that adjustment.
>
> - Let's shoot for once-a-week release cycle, on Friday evening pacific
>  time.
>
> - We allow commits freely in Sat, Sun, Mon, and Tue. Tuesday evening
>  is RC cut off.
>
> - We reserve Wed, Thu, and Fri as the quiet period.
>  We make commits to the core conservatively, and I'll use this period
>  to deploy RC bits to my production Hudson to be a guinea pig.
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> - This should give us more time to write tests.
>
>
> I know there will be all sorts of different ways to do releases, and I don't
> want to argue which is better than which. So my main question is, putting my
> dictator hat on, is this something that people can live with?
>
> --
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi
> Sun Microsystems                   http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/
>