Release 1.2

Proposed end-of-milestone timeline. Slips and actual dates also noted.

• Feb 5 - 1.2 feature complete (actual Feb 9)
  • only bugfixes, not features after this date
  • begin code slush on head, turn away features and large refactors
  • cut Alpha release candidate
• Feb 19 (+2w from Alpha) - declare Beta (actual Mar 4)
  • cut Beta RC and branch head to a 1.2-only branch
  • end code slush on master, open for 1.3+ work
  • focus on testing
• Mar 7 (+2w from Beta) - release 1.2 (actual TBD, probably 1-2w after Mar 4 Beta)
  • this will depend on stability and bugs remaining
  • continued focus on test
  • focus on documentation

Key features

• Scalability

  • More nodes
  • More pods per node

• Wrap up features that were in flight during the 1.1 timeframe

  • Horizontal pod auto-scaling API
    • add custom metrics
  • Ingress API
  • Job API
  • DaemonSet API
  • Deployment API
  • ConfigMap API
  • Make it easier to create resources
    • Namespace generation
    • Secret/config generation
    • export and convert