[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thoughts on Evergreen 3.6

[Blake Henderson]

All,

I like the idea of keeping the twice-per-year tempo. Likewise, it sounds 
like it can still be a feature-rich release even with the squeezed 
development time. So I am sold! Though, skipping the October date in 
favor of getting back on track in the Spring of 2021 doesn't seem like 
the end of the world either :) - Perhaps a negative would be that it 
would be a "huge" amount of changes which in-turn could have a larger 
impact on bug reports for those that adopt it.

-Blake-
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On 6/18/2020 11:52 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that Evergreen 3.5.0 is nearly out the door, I have some thoughts 
> on planning for 3.6.
>
> First, I suggest that we plan on a general release in October, though 
> perhaps more like the middle of the month rather than than the 
> beginning of it. Doing so would allow us to keep to a twice-a-year 
> tempo and not lose momentum like we might if we skipped the fall 
> release entirely this year. Pushing general release into November or 
> December would run into the winter holidays.
>
> An October release would of course mean a shorter cycle, but I think 
> we can actually work that to our advantage by having the focus of 3.6 
> be catching up with the backlog of pull requests, particularly ones 
> implementing new features. At the moment, there are 52 pull requests 
> that are signed off and 155 that are not signed off; a release that 
> did nothing but merge a good chunk of these would nonetheless be a 
> featureful one indeed.
>
> I'm not suggesting that 3.6 be just about the backlog; I know that 
> Bill is suggesting that the Angular catalog become the default and 
> that Equinox is planning on putting out big branches for the Angular 
> acquisitions work over the next few weeks. However, an emphasis on 
> reducing the backlog would both tidying up the bug list and deal with 
> the fact that some features have been waiting months or years for 
> review and merging.
>
> What do folks think? And are there people interested in proposing to 
> become RM or co-RM for this cycle?
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> -- 
> Galen Charlton
> Implementation and Services Manager
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
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