[keycloak-dev] Updated release cadence

[Stian Thorgersen]

Agreed - we need to run the old CI setup before every release (Beta and
Final)

On 7 February 2018 at 10:53, Hynek Mlnarik <hmlnarik at redhat.com> wrote:

> Then until we are able to check DBs at PR level, we should run at least
> start Keycloak on all supported DBs before promoting Beta release to make
> sure the changelogs are sane - to prevent issues like [1, 2]
>
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-5235
> [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-5416
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We would need to support migration between beta releases.
>>
>> On 6 February 2018 at 21:01, Hynek Mlnarik <hmlnarik at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Until now we have only supported database migration from Final to Final,
>>> i.e. not from CR1 to .Final. So when a change happened in between CR1 and
>>> Final, we did not care. What will be the supported path now? Will we
>>> support migrating from Beta1 to Beta2 to Beta3 to Final or only from Final
>>> to Final? I'd rather the latter but it seems we'll have to support the
>>> former.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As we've started working in 3 week sprints we are considering a new
>>>> release
>>>> model for Keycloak.
>>>>
>>>> What we are considering is doing a Beta release for every sprint, then
>>>> for
>>>> every 4th sprint (each quarter) we plan to do a Final release.
>>>>
>>>> For a beta release existing features will be considered stable, while
>>>> new
>>>> features may not be ready for prime time. The recommendation will still
>>>> be
>>>> to upgrade to always update to the latest release to receive the latest
>>>> security fixes and other fixes.
>>>>
>>>> However, care should be taken before using new features in production
>>>> until
>>>> a Final release is available.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> --Hynek
>>>
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> --Hynek
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