Developer experience
very important!
gradle tasks are complex
hard to figure out even just how to run Fineract, how to know it is healthy
goals for releases
( consider these value-driven goals first, then get to improvements, ideal frequency, automation )
stable, reliable, frequent, well-documented
avoid vendor lock-in, leverage open source, release from any platform
reproducible?
current
complex and manual
robust and inefficient
large codebase, gradle tasks, project & roadmap management, ASF policies
proposed and in-progress work and other notes
understand, simplify, standardize, automate
test/evaluate ATR (Apache Trusted Release) tool
policy/culture improvements to ease releasing
keep develop clean: be careful with WIP code/features
maintain your issues
improve documentation and release plugin, or shift to other automation
we don’t currently maintain releases, vendors could do this
what is ideal release frequency? depends on type of fix … we may need/want to differentiate between major, minor, patch/hotfix releases (e.g. full ceremony doesn’t make sense for a hotfix)