[OPEN-ILS-DEV] After 2.2 naming / schedule

[Dan Scott]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> As we look toward planning the next release of Evergreen (after 2.2), there are a couple of simple, but important questions we need to answer.
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> 1. Is it time to jump to 3.0 or do we stay with 2.3?
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> I'm not aware of any significant architectural changes (e.g. changing PG versions) on the horizon, which would suggest we stick with 2.3.  Perhaps it's too early to tell?
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> For reference: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=versioning

I vote for 2.3, with a corollary of changing "major feature release"
criteria to "minor feature release would be 2 digits otherwise".
Infrastructure is pretty much always changing.

For example, the next releases would be:

2.3
2.4
...
2.9
3.0 (to avoid 2.10)

> 2. Do we return to the originally proposed March/September release schedule?
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> My impression is there's a general consensus to do this.  It would lead to a shortened development cycle for next release, so I would like to give everyone a chance to voice their concerns / alternate suggestions and put this to a vote.

+1