25.05 Release retrospective

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I’m sorry that I’m publishing this late, but here are the notes for the retrospective we did for the 25.05 release.

  • hexa: Infrastructure Interaction fine

  • leona + hexa: Documentation improvements

Discussion about timing and collaboration

  • leona: Release Manager selction process should starting earlier to have more time for changes to the release process

  • hexa: Release Management should be a Team and not a Single person story

    • +1 from leona
    • 0x4A6F: team of 3 (trainee/lead/outgoing)

(leona: I agree with the proposal of 0x4A64. I’ll discuss this with the 25.11 RM and then see how we want to proceed)

Tag Situation

  • leona: Tag Name situation was confusing. The release-wiki says to use branch-off-25.05 for the tag at final release. I did it the old way. Will reopen the issue / push for discussion

Branch-Off

  • Grimmauld: Situation that all breaking changes were restricted and no breaking changes were possible for a few weeks was annoying

  • leona: One solution would be do branch-off together with breaking changes restriction. We would need more Hydra capacity for that one tho. Also risk for more changes not being backported

  • Grimmauld: Using staging as unrestricted would be an idea

  • leona: This wouldn’t work as there is a branch missing for the staging runs until branch-off

  • leona: A new change was this time that we created the staging-25.05 channel with staging unrestriction already

    • good change
    • matrix discussion about this: You're invited to talk on Matrix
    • potential problem: 25.11 release notes files in 25.05 release branch
      • Think about removing them (and move items in that because 25.05 is the first release with it) or at least not having them in the index
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