Release 1.4

(in draft; last update June 3)

#Proposed timeline Kubernetes 1.3 ships June 24. To land 2 more releases in 2016, we should aim for 1.5 in early December (late December is a holiday period), and work back. December 9 is a decent choice for Friday.

A proposal so far has been to not immediately enter 1.4 after 1.3, and to actually build in a week for focusing on flakes and testing across our dev community.

##1.4: June 27 flake week (1w) July 5 coding start (7w) Aug 19 feature complete, move to bugfix (4w). Sept 16 release.

##1.5: Sept 19 coding start (7w) Nov 4 feature complete, move to bugfix (5w, includes US Thanksgiving holiday) Dec 9 release.

##1.4 Details

###June 27 - July 1

• Flake and test fix-it week

###July 3 - Aug 19

• 7 week coding period
• Release 1.4 alphas every 2 weeks

###Aug 22 - Sept 2

• Enter code slush on head, no more features or major refactors
• Fix bugs and run tests
• Start Milestone Burndown meetings
• Branch and cut Beta release on Sept 2

###Sept 5 - Sept 16

• Open head for 1.5 work on Sept 5, after branch
• Fix bugs and run tests, update docs
• Release 1.4 on Sept 16