[Vote ended on 2022-11-04] Change release cadence and schedule of Ansible from 7.0.0 on to couple more tightly to ansible-core

[felixfontein]

Discussion: #151
Concrete proposal to vote on: #151 (comment)

1. Release 7.0.0rc1 one week after 7.0.0b1, where 7.0.0b1 is released approx. one day after ansible-core 2.14.0.
2. If there is no major problem with 7.0.0rc1 reported until the end of the week when it was released, the 7.0.0 release will happen one week after the 7.0.0rc1 release.
3. Otherwise 7.0.0rc2 wlil be released one week after the 7.0.0rc1 release, and 7.0.0 one week after 7.0.0rc2.
4. The 7.X.0 release will happen appox. one day after 2.14.X for X > 0.

This would be the expected schedule:

• 2022-11-07 ansible-core 2.14.0
• 2022-11-08/09 Ansible 7.0.0b1
• 2022-11-15 Ansible 7.0.0rc1
• 2022-11-18 major defects in Ansible 7.0.0rc1 must be know by then to trigger a rc2 release
• 2022-11-22 Ansible 7.0.0 or Ansible 7.0.0rc2 (when necessary)
• 2022-11-29 (Ansible 7.0.0 when rc2 was necessary)
• 2022-12-05 ansible-core 2.14.1
• 2022-12-06 Ansible 7.1.0

Please vote +1 to accept the proposal (with the new schedule), or -1 to reject it. When rejected, we will stay with the current schedule as in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_7.rst#release-schedule.

[felixfontein]

+1

[markuman]

+1

[mariolenz]

+1

[cybette]

+1

[gotmax23]

+1

[Andersson007]

+1

[russoz]

+1

[gundalow]

+1