[OE-core] Branched for release

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 10:24 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> > If we want to discuss this all again, so be it, but on the eve of
>> > release really isn't the time to start it all again.
>>
>> so when is the right time ? Do we have long enough pre-notice about
>> when we the branching is going to happen?
>
> We release approximately in April and October with a six month cadence.
>
> After the complaints about communication, there have been weekly status
> updates and the release dates were also *clearly* shown in there for
> when the release was planned. Incidentally, if those aren't useful,
> Stephen and I can stop doing them.
>
> Its not unreasonable to assume the branch for release happens sometime
> before the first rc build of the release.

I think what Khem means is that any time is time to discuss the
release process as this is a community driven project and we must to
be open for feedback and revisit our previous concepts.

I agree with Khem concerns here and I also believe we should rethink
the versioning / branching schema.

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