[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

[Ben Shum]

Hi Bill,

Dates look reasonable to me.  Having gone through the alpha cutting
stage myself now, I may agree with you that very few people tend to
test them and provide feedback with the majority often waiting for the
beta when more features have been added of note or substance.  Or you
know... just running directly off master and testing all along the
way.  ;)

I am +1 to your proposed dates; it'll certainly help that we'll be
coordinating the main release cutting alongside the current
maintenance release dates.  Looks like that'll help with the bug
wrangling and getting happier releases out the door in general.

Looking forward to seeing what's in the pipeline for 2.8!

-- Ben

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Bill Erickson <berickxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm attempting to sketch out the release schedule for Evergreen 2.8, so I'd
> like to run some dates/thoughts by everyone.
>
> For starters, unless someone requests it, I'm not planning to cut an Alpha
> release.  I've never seen anyone install one :).  I'm happy to cut one if
> desired, though.
>
> Proposed schedule:
>
> * Jan 14 2015: Feature Target Deadline
>
> This is the date where all features we expect to get into 2.8 are documented
> in LP and targeted to 2.8.  They do not have to be coded or tagged as pull
> requests by this date.  They just need to be documented.  As before, this is
> a strong recommendation, but not a hard deadline.
>
> Feb 18 2015: Feature Freeze
>
> From this date forward, only bug fixes may be committed to master.  Any
> un-merged features will be booted to 2.9.
>
> Feb 25 2015: 2.8.beta1 Release
>
> March 9 2015: 2.8.rc1 Release
>
> March 18 2015: 2.8.0 Release
>
> Comments/suggestions welcome.
>
> Note that in the future I'll avoid cross-posting to both -general and -dev
> lists and just send 2.8 updates to -general to cut down on noise.
>
> Thanks, everyone.
>
> -b



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Benjamin Shum
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