Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#17919 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Release process could use some more detail about beta and release candidates

Reported by: Preston Holmes Owned by: Aymeric Augustin
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I think it is a bit unclear about what counts as a qualifying change later in the release cycle.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-process/#release-cycle

The three phases don't shed much light about what kind of bugs can be filed for alpha, beta, and RC stages

In general I think the feeling is that only Release Blockers/Regressions should be committed at RC stage?

However, in many projects - alpha implies not feature frozen, however that is what is stated by the docs by saying that alpha marks transition from feature adding, to bug fixing.

As the core team increases - having a little clarification in the docs would help.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Preston Holmes, 13 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

in reply to:  description comment:2 by Preston Holmes, 13 years ago

Replying to ptone:

The three phases don't shed much light about what kind of bugs can be filed for alpha, beta, and RC stages

This was not stated correctly - I mean what kinds of bug patches can be committed (blockers vs other bugs)

Obviously bugs can be filed at any time

comment:3 by Tim Graham, 12 years ago

Triage Stage: Design decision neededAccepted

Perhaps now would be a good time to add these details.

comment:4 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Aymeric Augustin
Status: newassigned

Tentatively assigning to myself.

comment:5 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Has patch: set

This pull request, among other things, fixes this ticket: https://github.com/django/django/pull/816

comment:6 by Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@…>, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 5d883589a8f6950e98538c9509a201d61573460d:

Updated the release process docs to reflect the current practices.

Fixed #17919.

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