[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

[Mike Rylander]

Bill,

First, thanks for putting out a timeline.

I am a little concerned about the pre-beta feature freeze.  In the past,
the merge deadline for features has always been "whatever makes it into the
beta release", and I don't see cutting that back by a week helping things
to get done faster -- we just end up with a week less features in 2.8, and
that last week is often (us being humans, and whatnot) the critical push
time for things that are almost there.  Do you have something in mind that
I'm not seeing for the change there?

I did note that the feature target deadline is not a hard deadline, but for
my part I can say that with the schedule only being clarified over what
amounts to 3 months (the remainder of December through release in
mid-March), the middle of January will be a tight squeeze to target things
by then.  Being one that does a good bit of feature development, I expect
to be begging leave to target features after the scheduled date on several
smaller features, as dev time permits in January and February.  I just want
to set that expectation now, so it's not a surprise if it ends up
happening...

Thanks!


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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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