2024-03-05 Release WG Minutes

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Last updated: Mar 12, 2024
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Agenda

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  • Roll Call

  • Action Items Review

  • Agenda Bashing

  • General Topics

    •  Review of milestones

  • Any Other Topics

Minutes

Action Item Review

Question on release requirement

Question on the reference to point 6 in the Check list here: the table is here Checklist.md in Commonalities

Is this still applicable ? yes, but the new definitions of the release types should clarify what 

Review of Milestones

Comments on table:

  • need to clarify the table in what is input to the miletone: change wording to past tense.

  • add more time for the commonalities milestone - discuss time in the TSC

  • move items from milestone 1 to milestone 2

  • move retro items after the release milestone

  • total is 17 weeks - some weeks can be added

  • two columns for commonalities (pre-release usable by sub-projects and M2) and one for sub-projects

  • put tasks between milestones

  • put DOD in the milestone line

Timeline discussion in the Technical Steering Committee (update: now scheduled for TSC on March 21st).

MWC is about implementation, not CAMARA releases. Example: for MWC Februar 25 implementation should use a meta-release of CAMARA APIs from Sept 24. A first meta-release within September 24 could be announced at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Vienna (Sept 16-18, 2024). A cadence of two releases per year would then continue in spring 25 (e.g. April 24, after MWC) and again in September 25.

Maturity of sub-projects

Proposal to look at introducing stages/categories (as in CNCF):

  • sandbox projects - easy to create

  • incubated projects - hard to get into 

  • mature projects - stable

E.g. 2 Provider Implementations between sandbox and incubator.

If a project wants to get incubated they must at least be part of one meta release

Question: clarify how does this map to alpha/beta/release ? It will needs a picture.

Action items