[iTowns-dev] iTowns-dev Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

Mon Jun 26 03:01:53 PDT 2017

Good to see that everyone agrees on releasing a first version on July 5.

Instead of listing what needs to be part of this release, I believe each person should work on items that are important to his (her) priorities/company/users/whatever.

Everything that gets merged before the 5 will be part of itowns 2.0.0.

If something important is missing don't worry, itowns 2.0.1 will be release a few weeks later, and then 2.0.2, etc etc.

Regards,
Pierre-Eric

Le 26/06/2017 à 10:51, Alexandre Devaux a écrit :
> Hi all!
> I've some strange delays receiving mails from itowns-dev list I will check why.
> 
> I totally agree with the release on the 5th of july. The master is stable, the last very important thing we need to do is Documentation.
> 
> - Document code (in code and a high level UML style for global architecture)
> - Document for developers and coders! ( I started a tutorial with different examples for both, months ago, Victor Coindet is currently working on it now)
> 
> Then the launch should come with communication, I'll try to prepare a nice video demo for it. If you have some nice video capture of experimentation with itowns2 don't hesitate to send it to me so I can integrate them.
> 
> Bests,
> 
> Alexandre Devaux
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>    1. Re: Let's release v2.0 ! (Vincent Picavet (ml))
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> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:19:45 +0200
> From: "Vincent Picavet (ml)" <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>
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> Subject: Re: [iTowns-dev] Let's release v2.0 !
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> Hello,
> 
> No objection to this proposal, should we therefore plan for the release
> on the 5th of July ?
> 
> If still no disagreement, I will set this date for the GitHub milestone,
> and we will start working on the required tasks for release.
> 
> Vincent
> 
> On 16/06/2017 15:14, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We announced last year that iTowns 2.0 would be released at the end of
>> 2016. We are now mid-2017, and it is more than time to release !
>>
>> We had to refactor and clean up a lot of things before being able to
>> release. With the PRs merged lately, the master branch is now stable,
>> the architecture is good, and we have the basic set of features we need
>> to be able to go out in the wild.
>> We agreed before on a "release soon, release often" strategy, let's do
>> that, we are very very close to being ready.
>>
>> Our timeframe for the release is shortening though :
>>
>> - if we do not release before the summer, we take a huge risk of not
>> being able to release before october, with the vacations of most of the
>> developers, and the busy period of september. This would mean almost a
>> year delay, which is not acceptable
>>
>> - two main opensource GIS events take place this summer, FOSS4G-Europe
>> and FOSS4G international in Boston. This is the best time to communicate
>> on new products, and again, if we miss this opportunity, it would mean a
>> long delay before such communication opportunities arise again
>>
>>
>> I therefore propose to set the date for the release on the 5th of July,
>> 2017.
>>
>>
>> This schedule allows to polish up things between now and the 5th, and
>> also prepare additional elements for the release ( website,
>> communication announcement & such).
>>
>> If there is no strong disagreement before next tuesday with credible
>> alternative proposals, I propose to stick to this plan, and get ready
>> for its implementation :  create GH milestones, PR and issues triaging,
>> start work for communication and demos.
>>
>> This does not prevent to work on further features, examples,
>> documentation and all the great things required to make itowns better.
>> Once the v2.0 has been released, we can enter a real "release soon,
>> release often" mode, improving this piece of software with short iterations.
>>
>> What do you think about planning ahead the release after 2.0, fixing the
>> schedule sometime in september ?
>>
>> Bottom line : if you have things you really want to be in v2.0, get down
>> to work now, and before the 5th of July. Otherwise do not worry, you
>> will still get opportunity to have the work released in the next version
>> soon.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Vincent
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