[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Thoughts on Evergreen 3.6

[Bill Erickson]

Hi Galen,

A 3.6 release in October works for me.  It may be a less bold release than
others -- or maybe not -- but sometimes that's a good thing.

-b



On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:28 PM Blake Henderson <blake at mobiusconsortium.org>
wrote:

> 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-
> Conducting Magic
> MOBIUS
>
>
> 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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