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

[John Cole]

Schuyler,
  I like the small, fast cycle.  The next feature I'm looking forward too is
the animated pan/zoom.  Development on OL is extremely active and appears to
always have been, so attempting to keep someone else's sandbox up to date or
even our own copy up to date is challenging.  Having new feature/fixes
regularly move into the trunk really aids me.

  A schedule would allow me to plan on which feature set I could safely
develop on.  For a time, I was wondering if 2.4 was going to be ready for my
release or not :-)

John

-----Original Message-----
From: dev-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:dev-bounces at openlayers.org] On
Behalf Of Schuyler Erle
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:50 PM
To: dev at openlayers.org
Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] moving OL to a scheduled release cycle

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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