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Proposed simplification of the major release process.

Changes/rational:

  • Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior.
    • No builds are run until 6 weeks before so there's no significant impact of creating the branches any earlier.
  • Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month. Mirror the master branch up until 1 week before the release.
    • Mirroring the branches for as long as possible keeps the Git history in sync.
  • Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any majors which land within a month of the release'.
    • Majors are already gated with TSC approvals at land time.
    • We've had almost no objections for majors for the past few releases - and when there is an objection we have almost always reverted on master too.
    • Asking if there's any objections to the majors is a somewhat tiresome process, and in recent releases I've found there has been minimal engagement. (We're all busy people and it is easy to miss notifications.)

cc: @nodejs/releasers @nodejs/tsc

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lgtm

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@BethGriggs BethGriggs added the release-agenda Issues and PRs to discuss during the meetings of the Release team. label Nov 16, 2021
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LGTM

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doc: simplify major release preparation
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Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.
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danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 13, 2021
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doc: simplify major release preparation
302d6ec 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: #40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 14, 2021
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doc: simplify major release preparation
e3ac384 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: #40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
@danielleadams danielleadams mentioned this pull request Dec 14, 2021
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doc: simplify major release preparation
2fbd3d9 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: #40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
@BethGriggs @danielleadams
doc: simplify major release preparation
a328f59 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: #40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
Linkgoron pushed a commit to Linkgoron/node that referenced this pull request Jan 31, 2022
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doc: simplify major release preparation
73d608c 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: nodejs#40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
danielleadams pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 1, 2022
@BethGriggs @danielleadams
doc: simplify major release preparation
e401e6c 
Changes/rational:

- Change the branch creation to two months prior from three months prior
  to the release.
- Do not cherry-pick commits within the last month - mirror the master
  branch up until 1 week before the release.
- Dropped 'semver major cut-off' and replace with 'Inform TSC of any
  majors which land within a month of the release'.

PR-URL: #40816
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Danielle Adams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
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