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| title: "Release Plan for Gerrit 3.8" |
| tags: news |
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| permalink: 2023-03-31-gerrit-3.8-release-plan.html |
| summary: "Release Plan for Gerrit 3.8" |
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| ## High Level Release Plan |
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| | Date | Activity | |
| |-----------|----------------------------------------------------| |
| | Apr 3 | Create `stable-3.8` branch, Release `3.8.0-rc0` | |
| | Apr 10 | Release `3.8.0-rc1` | |
| | Apr 17 | Release `3.8.0-rc2` | |
| | Apr 24 | Release `3.8.0-rc3` - Feature freeze deadline | |
| | May 2 | Release `3.8.0-rc4` | |
| | May 9 | Release `3.8.0-rc5` | |
| | May 9-15 | Gerrit Hackathon on Discord | |
| | May 19 | Final release of `3.8.0` | |
| |
| ## Gerrit Hackathon |
| |
| The Gerrit hackathon is planned during the release week, fully remote and hosted on Discord. |
| |
| We also encourage all the [JGit contributors and committers](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/who) |
| to join the event. |
| |
| We will also ask the community members to allocate some of their time during the |
| hackathon to help with finalizing the release: |
| |
| - Test the release candidates. |
| - Report issues. |
| - Triage and troubleshoot incoming bug reports. |
| - Make fixes. |
| - Do code reviews. |
| - Test the latest head of the stable branch. |
| |
| To expedite reviews of Library-Compliance and frontend changes, we will ask |
| Google to make some members available in the EU time-zone. |
| |
| > NOTE: for all of those who cannot travel there will be a remote collaboration |
| > channel where anyone around the world could join the hackathon remotely. |
| |
| ## End-to-end Testing |
| |
| We plan to use the |
| [Gatling e2e test framework for Git](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-e2e-tests.html), |
| developed by GerritForge and Ericsson, to test the stability of the release |
| on a production-like setup on AWS automatically provisioned using the |
| [aws-gerrit](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/aws-gerrit) templates. |
| |
| [GerritForge](https://www.gerritforge.com) has also offered its own AWS |
| infrastructure to test the scalability of Gerrit v3.8, particularly with |
| medium to large sized projects and in a multi-primary setup. |
| |
| The [Gerrit-CI](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com) has also an automated |
| [aws-gerrit pipeline](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com/job/gatling-gerrit-test/) |
| that will be pointed to the stable-3.8 branch and run on a daily basis. |
| |
| ## End of Life for Gerrit 3.5.x |
| |
| Per the support policy mentioned on the |
| [project homepage](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/support.html#supported-versions), |
| after 3.8.0 is released 3.5.x will reach end of life and will no longer be |
| actively supported. |
| |
| Support for 3.6.x and 3.7.x will continue as usual. |
| Users of 3.5.x or earlier are recommended to upgrade to one of these versions. |
