[epp-dev] About our maintenance rhythm

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this has always been a bit confusing,
and not exactly sure how we ended up with a different window from our main
release. I think it was simply desired to have contained all in one calendar
week. In the few, rare times that a maintenance week overlaps with a milestone
week (two times a year?) there is some advantage, to me, to having them
offset by one day, so everything is not due at exactly same time ... but,
I think that could be argued either way ... like going to the dentist;
sometimes easier to get two fillings at once, rather than to spread the
pain over two days :) but sometimes not.

I'm sure Planning Council would be open
to suggestions for the future, if its possible and would be helpful.  

I do recall in years past, EPP for maintenance
would not be "done" until very late Friday (maybe even your Saturday,
Markus), or even Monday and think no one minds since there is not as large
of an immediate demand for them, as there is for the milestones of new
development. If desired, we could always make schedule clearer by marking
"available" on Mondays, instead of Friday, so Friday could be
a true "whole day" for EPP work. This would not change the final
availability date, as it would simply make "quiet week" start
one day later (which is perfectly fine, especially for maintenance release,
since we expect fewer changes as we ramp down). 

Or, I could just do a better job of
reminding everyone :) 

Suggestions welcome. 

Thanks, 





From:      
 Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 EPP Developer Mailing
List <epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 09/02/2011 04:15 AM
Subject:    
   [epp-dev] EPP
Indigo SR1 RC2 - second try
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Good, if you read the other mails on this mailing list,
you probably know that there was another contribution to the /releases/maintenance
repository and that I had to rebuild the packages to include the latest
changes. And I've learnt that EPP build/test/release day in the service
release schedule is Friday only (I got so used to the Thursday/Friday schedule
of the release train that I didn't pay attention to my calendar).

So here is another build that includes the latest bits from the Simultaneous
Release repository and I am asking you to (re-)test this one:

http://build.eclipse.org/technology/epp/epp_build/indigo/download/20110902-0610/

Sorry for any confusion...

Regards, Markus


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