Release Rotations 2022

Release Rotations 2022

A page to keep track of engineers doing Besu releases, as well as roughly how long the release process is taking. 


Release Date

Cutoff Date

Release Version

Executor

Approver

Release Coordinator

Time Taken

Release Date

Cutoff Date

Release Version

Executor

Approver

Release Coordinator

Time Taken

Jan 5



21.10.6

Sally

Justin

Sally

1h

Jan 14



21.10.7

Sally

Danno

Sally

3h (cherry picking)

Jan 17



21.10.8

Sally

Danno

Sally

1h

Jan 19



21.10.9

Justin

Gary

Justin

1.5hr

Jan 27



22.1.0-RC3

Gary

Sally

Gary

1.5hr

Jan 31



22.1.0-RC4

Frank

Sally

Lucas

1.5hr

Feb 17



22.1.0





Lucas/Sally

1.3hr so far (cherry picking)

1.5hrs updating canaries

Feb 25



22.1.1 (bi-weekly)

Danno







Mar 15



22.1.2 (bi-weekly)

Frank

Sally

Frank

2.5h (1.5h spent fixing DCO)

Mar 31



22.1.3 (bi-weekly)

Stefan

Frank

Stefan

1.75hr

Apr 13 



22.1.4 (bi-weekly)

Lucas







April 4



22.4.0-RC1

Justin

Karim

Justin

1.5hr

Apr 28th



22.4.0-RC2

Gary







May 4th



22.4.0

Lucas

Sally

?

1h release
1.5h updating canaries

May 18th



22.4.1 (bi-weekly)

(merge-ready ropsten)

Jason

Simon/Sally

Jason

3hr (merging in flaky test fix, codeql oom, manifest docker step failed)

May 27th (early)



22.4.2 (bi-weekly)

Gary







June 15 (might move up)



22.4.3 (bi-weekly)

Justin

Stefan

Justin

2hr, cherry picking a pr revert.

July 6



22.4.4 (patch)

Gary







July 6



22.7.0-RC1

Sally 







July 20



22.7.0-RC2

Danno

Gary





July 27



22.7.0-RC3

Gary

Justin, Meredith





Aug 3



22.7.0

Danno

Gary





Aug 22



22.7.1

Justin

Danno





Sept 7



22.7.2

Gary

Danno



Merge Only Cherrypicks

Sep 21



22.7.3

Gary

Justin



Mainline

Sep 26



22.7.4

Justin

Fabio



off-cycle release

Oct 5



22.7.5

Justin

Gary



off-cycle release





22.7.6

Gary

Justin





Oct 19



22.7.7

Fabio

Justin/Gary





Oct 6



22.10.0-RC1

Gary

Justin



Mainline

Oct 19



22.10.0-RC2

Gary

Fabio





Nov 2



22.10.0

Fabio

Karim





Nov 16



22.10.1  release not done because burn-in testing not satisfactory - following 22.10.x releases updated

Jason







Nov 30



22.10.2

22.10.1

Gary

Jason





Dec 3



22.10.2

Gary

Justin



Hotfix for SEGFAULTs on 22.10.1

Dec 14

Dec 9 PST

22.10.2

22.10.3

Jason







Dec 28



23.1.0-beta

22.10.4

Gary





Beta - Not released as production ready. Will include EOF 

Jan 11



23.1.0-RCx

Gary





start from main, cherry pick until done on 25th

For further releases, see Release Rotations 2023

Volunteers

  • Jiri

  • Karim

  • Danno

  • Justin

  • Gary

  • Sally

  • Stefan

  • Lucas

  • Jason