Volcano Version Release

Version Plan

Version plan is usually put into practice half month before the latest version released.

Requirements Collection

According to the feedback of community, we will collect requirements which are from classical scenes or common demands in the last three months. All collected requirements will be listed in the requirements list, reviewed initially, and prioritized.

Community Review

Requirement list will be submitted to the community weekly meeting for discussion. Community members will evaluate the scenarios, rationality, feature design points, development workload and other dimensions of the requirements. After the discussion, part of requirements will be settled as version features and published in the roadmap.

Version Release

Generally, we will release an official version such as 1.X every three months. Bug fix versions such as 1.X.X are released any time we consider it necessary after some important bug fixed.

Code Freeze

In order to ensure the quality of master branch, repository will be frozen two weeks before official version released, during which only bug fix PRs are admitted to be merged. Alpha and Beta version also will be released in the period.

Branch Checkout

During the code frozen, a new branch whose name like release-X.X.X will be checkout to merge bug fix and published release.

Release Publishment

We will publish every release and related docker images. Users can find release in the release list and docker images in the DockerHub.

Beta Test

After every release published, some users and community members will be invited to join the Beta test. Any contributor is welcome to take part in the test. We will collect bug feedback and fix them immediately. Usually, this work will be going one week before official release published.

Official Release Publishment

After all the work above finished, official release will be published with note about feature introduction.