[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Monthly maintenance (point) release schedule

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Bill Erickson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Since we are now applying a more rigid schedule to major releases for
> Evergreen, perhaps we should do the same for maintenance releases.  We've
> already agreed to generally do monthly maintenance releases.  How about we
> elect a day each month for the release cutting?  It can be flexible as
> needed, of course, but I think it's nice to have a default target.
> 
> There will be exceptions, like critical (data-eating) bugs / critical
> security fixes, but we can manage those on an as-needed basis.
> 
> Since I'm bringing it up, I'll go ahead and suggest the 3rd Wednesday of
> each month.  I like Wednesdays since they give us lead/recovery time in the
> form of business days.  Plus the 3rd Wednesday of each month gives us some,
> but not too much, flub room to get the release out within the monthly
> window.
> 
> For January, this would mean 2.3.3 and 2.2.5 would be released January
> 16th.

+1 : making (relatively) firm decisions helps us march toward the same
release goals

If this proposal goes forward, let's get the dates onto the development
calendar, too.