Re: Release-related issues

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Tim Williams wrote:
> 
> This is fairly trivial, but I'm thinking we'd help things by
> separating those issues that simply "need to be done as a part of
> every release" vs. actual issues targeted at a specific release.  I
> see two ways to help:
> 
> a) Add a new version with, instead of a "-dev" extension, have "-rel"
> suffix.  Then, we agree that the workflow is:
>   a1) "x-dev" issues to zero
>   a2) code freeze
>   a3) "x-rel" issues to zero
>   a4) release
> 
> OR
> 
> b) We add these "need to be done as a part of every release" issues to
> a new "Release" component so that they might be easily filtered out.
> 
> Anyway, trivial, but I think the separation is helpful to reviewing
> "real" issues vs those that simply need to be done before release.

Good idea.

Sorry, i don't know how to decide which way is better.
Toss a coin, and just do it. We can always change.

-David