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