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Besu Wiki Article Explaining Release Philosophy #252

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MadelineMurray opened this issue Mar 17, 2020 · 3 comments
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Besu Wiki Article Explaining Release Philosophy #252

MadelineMurray opened this issue Mar 17, 2020 · 3 comments
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@MadelineMurray
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We need a wiki article explaining our general release cadence philosophy, CI/CD driven numbering scheme, and rough guidance on quarterly big releases.

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i.e. our numbering is ..
We bump milestone when a release is big enough (such as full mainnet compliance). We do a quarterly release where we upgrade all dependencies with a RC release, and bi-weekly all come in CD style. We don’t do multiple branches.

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macfarla commented Jul 2, 2020

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Added further info on numbering rationale

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I think we probably need to explicitly state we're not using semantic versioning and mention that we do patch releases on a fortnightly cadence to allow access to bug fixes without delay.

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