<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For the past several sprints, we've had this series of steps / important dates at the end of the sprint: </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><ol><li>Target Platform Freeze Day: last Wed of sprint<br></li><li>Code Freeze / Branch Day: last Thurs of sprint (sometimes slips to Friday, as it did last week)<br></li><li>Build runs over night: last Thurs of sprint (sometimes slips to Friday, as it did last week)<br></li><li>Stage build for QE: last Fri of sprint (sometimes slips to Sat/Sun, as it did last week)<br></li><li>QE review period: last Mon-Tues of sprint<br></li><li>Release Day: first Wed of next sprint (sometimes takes an additional day)<br></li><li>Announcement Day: 6 days after GA Release on the following Tuesday</li></ol><span style="font-size:12.8px">On today's Cabal call, it was decided that we could instead shift the process back by one day:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><ol><li>Target Platform Freeze Day: second-last Tues of sprint: <b>Mar 7 </b><b>at midnight EST</b><br></li><li>Code Freeze / Branch Day: last Wed of sprint (could slip to Thurs for blocker): <b>Mar 8 at 23:59 EST</b><br></li><li>Build runs over night: last Thurs of sprint (could slip to Thurs for blocker):<b> Mar 9 starting around 00:00 EST</b><br></li><li>Stage build for QE: last Thurs of sprint (could slip to Friday instead of weekend): <b>Mar 9</b></li><li>QE review period: last Fri & Mon of sprint: <b>Mar 10 & Mar 13 (CET)</b> [QE approval announcement is usually EOD Brno time]<br></li><li>Release Day: last Tues of sprint: <b>Mar 14</b><br></li><li>Announcement Day: 7 days after GA Release on the following Tuesday (could be sooner, too)</li></ol>(Dates above are for the current Daffodil sprint 128. Add 21 days to each one for subsequent sprint dates.)<div><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">By moving everything a day earlier in the sprint, we:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li>gain additional buffer for blocker issues found on code freeze day (as happened this past sprint),</li><li>are less likely to have to do releng work on the weekend, and<br></li><li>enable devstudio to go live a full day earlier so that downstream integration testing w/ CDK and DevSuite can be even more efficiently done prior to the GA announcement.</li></ul><div><div>We'll try this approach for the next sprint or two and can review if it's an improvement during a sprint retrospective in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat<br>Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio<br><a href="http://nick.divbyzero.com" target="_blank">http://nick.divbyzero.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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