[OpenLayers-Dev] moving OL to a scheduled release cycle

[Paul Spencer]

Schuyler,

I'm a big fan of release-early-release-often but it seems to me that  
this may be a bit aggressive.  It has the advantage of pushing out  
stable releases very quickly but I think it has a lot of overhead.   
Most projects I'm familiar with have a 6 month cycle, and even that  
is difficult to stick with.

I think I would prefer longer cycles, perhaps 3-4 months rather than 2?

Paul

On 6-Jun-07, at 4:49 PM, Schuyler Erle wrote:

> Some Free Software projects have benefitted from the use of scheduled
> releases, as a way of focusing community effort and ensuring that  
> stable
> releases with the latest features and bug fixes are available on a
> timely and frequent basis. Our experience trying to get 2.4 out the  
> door
> has been very educational, and suggests to me that it may be of  
> service
> to the OpenLayers project to transition to this type of development
> model.
>
> I would like to propose that OpenLayers adopt a two month development
> cycle -- roughly six weeks of active feature development, followed  
> by a
> code freeze, and two weeks of release candidate testing. Since 2.4 was
> released in the first week of June, I recommend that we fix mid- 
> July as
> a deadline for the 2.5 code freeze, and aim to have OpenLayers 2.5
> released in the first week of August. Subsequent releases would be  
> timed
> for the first week of even-numbered months (with 2.6 in October and  
> 2.7
> or 3.0 in December).
>
> Does anyone have any comments or feedback on this idea? I'd like to  
> know
> if there's any traction in the community before we go with a PSC vote.
> Thanks!
>
> SDE
>
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