Add a section on "Expedited Releases" to the Release Policy #457

niallkp · 2025-03-07T04:02:29Z

The following discussions on members@ talked about urgent releases where the voting period was less than the normal 72 hours:

It is difficult to have a consensus on what an exceptional circumstance is. No-one has disagreed with urgent releases for publicly know security issues. However there was agreement from a number of people (and no disagreement) on the following points:

Explain why in the vote email
give project members as much "heads up" as possible before the vote is called
since its not following normal policy it must be reported to the board

I've tried to encapsulate that in a new section in the release policy doc. However I'm not the best wordsmith so please feel free to improve

markt-asf

Looks good to me. Just the one trivial nit with the proposed text.

content/legal/release-policy.md

tisonkun · 2025-03-07T10:39:14Z

content/legal/release-policy.md


-Release votes SHOULD remain open for at least 72 hours.
+Release votes SHOULD remain open for at least 72 hours. See
+[RFC 2119](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119) for a good definition of


I'm considering mentioning this at the beginning of this page, since we use the keywords throughout the whole page. Or we can leave the whole reference to RFC-2119 to a follow-up since the explained content here already implies that such a "72 hours" SHOULD can be broken in exceptional circumstances.

Its a good point and there are other policy docs also using SHOULD, I wondered the same, but just focusing on this issue and the debates it seemed a good idea to have it close to this wording. Lets see if anyone else agrees with you before deciding whether to remove it from this change

Yeah .. It would be OK to improve the reference in a follow-up also.

At the top of the page would be better I think

OK, I've removed the reference to RFC 2119 for the definition of SHOULD. I'll leave it to someone else to decide how/where to improve the docs with that and keep this change focused only on the reduced voting period change

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…(remove SHOULD definition)

paulk-asert · 2025-03-10T09:03:24Z

+1

bproffitt · 2025-03-10T19:06:42Z

Waiting for @rvs review

rvs

LGTM! Ship it!

jbonofre

It looks good to me.

jerpelea · 2025-03-13T08:27:10Z

LGTM

bproffitt · 2025-03-13T12:03:53Z

LGTM! Ship it!

You were who I was waiting for. :)

niallkp · 2025-03-13T17:39:13Z

Great, thanks Everyone!

potiuk · 2025-03-13T21:57:52Z

Nice!

bdelacretaz · 2025-03-14T08:45:13Z

I have a more concise proposal at PR #462 - sorry that I missed this discussion earlier.

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