vitessio/enhancements

Major release every 3 months instead of every 12 weeks

deepthi opened this issue · 3 comments

deepthi commented

We currently do a major release every 12 weeks per VEP-1(#1). I would like to change this to every 3 months / 13 weeks so that the releases are at a more or less fixed time every year.

If we adopt this proposal, 7.0 will be released on July 28, 2020 instead of July 21, 2020.

EDIT:
Another change proposed by @morgo:
Instead of making patch releases monotonic as described here, we will modify the versioning to follow SemVer. This is because we have not actually been making weekly releases, we are doing only major releases + on-demand patch releases.
EDIT 2:
Clarify that SemVer is for patch releases. Major version number will change every 3 months.

morgo commented

SGTM. I have one other comment: the original intention of monotonic releases was to snapshot release trees weekly and make a release. It's not really panned out that way - we more likely have a known bug that is serious enough we accommodate a patch release for it.

So I think it makes sense to say patch releases are as needed and will follow semver instead.

rafael commented

Makes sense to me.