[OpenLayers-Dev] maintenance releases

[Matthias Sala]

Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl> schrieb:

>Picking up on an old thread, IIRC we had quite a bit of consensus on this.
>
>So what do we do for 2.9, a quick maintenance release or a normal full-blown release?
>
>Best regards,
>Bart
>
>On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:
>
>> Hey-
>> 
>> We periodically discuss releasing on a fixed schedule.  Though a few 
>> releases have come close to sticking to a schedule, my impression is 
>> that it has been a tough to pull off.  It is also my impression that the 
>> release process feels onerous enough to enough people that we are 
>> collectively avoiding it.
>> 
>> I'm interested in discussing doing more "maintenance" releases between 
>> minor releases.  What exactly would change about the release process [1] 
>> I'm not sure, but the goal would be to make it less work overall.
>> 
>> While this might seem extreme, I'm curious what people would think about 
>> kicking out maintenance releases *without* going through the release 
>> candidate cycle.  Taking this further, a maintenance release manager 
>> could decide to stick to a schedule and release even if there were known 
>> regressions.
>> 
>> While the result may be something of questionable value, I do think it 
>> would bring some benefits.  My impression is that there are a lot of 
>> people running applications off the trunk currently.  I also imagine a 
>> fair number are running "sandbox" functionality or their own patched 
>> versions.  Having more frequent releases would not be that much 
>> different than pegging applications to a specific version of the trunk. 
>>  I think all would agree this is safer than having an application run 
>> off the head revision.
>> 
>> This would also have the benefit for contributors of more quickly seeing 
>> their contribution in an official release - potentially encouraging more 
>> contributions.
>> 
>> Obviously there would be details to work out about the process, but I 
>> would suggest a pared down version of the major/minor release process - 
>> with leeway for the maintenance release manager to decide on some 
>> specifics (e.g. if all tests pass on this date, bump tickets, release, 
>> and make notes about known issues).
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> Tim
>> 
>> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/Procedure
>> 
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