Proposed SIG-Release meeting agenda for December-07-21

[Ulrick28]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time: December 07, 2021 @ 06:00pm UTC / 10:00am PT
• Location: Discord SIG-Release Voice Room
• Moderator: Terry Michaels
• Note Taker Tony Balandiuk

The SIG-Release Meetings repo contains the history past calls, including a link to the agenda, recording, notes, and resources.

SIG Updates

What happened since the last meeting?

Meeting Agenda

• 12/2 release status restrospective
  • Acknowledgement of release
  • When should a discussion be held for how to improve the release mechanism for future releases?
• O3DE January Point Release Proposed Sig-Release Meeting Agenda Topic: RTE Point Release early January #27
  • Technical Steering Committee is onboard with a point release.
  • Tentative date? Sometime between January 11th - 13th to start the discussion.
    • Avoids bleeding into weekend
    • Allows everyone a week to recover from the holiday breaks
    • Gives time for QA and address any issues after the break (Note that December 20th - January 2nd are very slow for contributors as most people are out during this time)
• For a variety of reasons (technical and marketing) should we consider utilizing YY.MM.Version instead of YYMM.Version?
  • Wix (windows installer framework) and windows has issues with each position being over 255, except the last position which can be 65k in value.
  • Marketing Committee considers yy.mm.version friendlier than yymm.version
  • If we are going to change our versioning, it is better to do it early in O3DE's life cycle.
• Need to coordinate with marketing committee on friendly names
  • Using YY.MM.version as a part of the friendly name led to confusion in documentation, the installer, the editor splash screen, and how to communicate the release. This confusion was due to how close 21.11 is to our actual version of 2111.1.
• Discuss any updates for Definition of Long Term Support (LTS) of Releases (ongoing discussion)
• Future release cadence (ongoing discussion)?
  • Currently scheduled for ~6 months
• Elections are currently being held

Outcomes from Discussion topics

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Action Items

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Open Discussion Items

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[tonybalandiuk]

notes posted https://github.com/o3de/sig-release/blob/main/meetings/notes/2021%20-%20December%207