What's your opinion about determining our next Camel release dates in JIRA in advance? I think this could help us to synchronize our planning (from each committer). It will also help us to work more in the RERO (release early - release often) mode because it makes it more difficult to miss a release date. I think this was the case a few times in the past, especially if we have to deal with some overload (in our business or in our private). Let me share some examples. Normally we try to ship a new minor release each 3 month: Camel 2.0.0 (08/2009) Camel 2.1.0 (12/2009) -> after 4 month (fixed 308 issues) Camel 2.2.0 (02/2010) -> after 2 month (fixed 181 issues) Camel 2.3.0 (05/2010) -> after 3 month (fixed 277 issues) Camel 2.4.0 (07/2010) -> after 2 month (fixed 184 issues) Camel 2.5.0 (10/2010) -> after 3 month (fixed 301 issues) Camel 2.6.0 (01/2011) -> after 3 month (fixed 295 issues) Camel 2.7.0 (03/2011) -> after 2 month (fixed 170 issues) Camel 2.8.0 (05/2011) -> after 2 month (fixed 423 issues) Camel 2.9.0 (12/2011) -> after 7 month (fixed 498 issues) Camel 2.10.0 (07/2012) -> after 7 month (fixed 492 issues) Camel 2.11.0 (?) -> after 4+ month (fixed 300+ issues)
One of the reasons why the last two releases was released after a much more longer time is, that we started to backport fixes into the two maintenance branches - which is a good thing. But this should not prevent us to release a new minor version each 3 month IMO. I propose targeting the following release dates: Camel 2.11.0 -> 12/16/2012 Camel 2.10.3 -> 12/23/2012 Camel 2.9.5 -> 12/23/2012 (last regular 2.9.x release) Camel 2.12.0 -> that's another discussion I will start soon Camel 3.0.0 -> that's another discussion I will start soon The determining release date is not a fix date, it's a planned release date which we may post pone if we have some difficulties with the release or some last minute critical bugs we have to fix. But we should of course try to target the planned release date. Our users also benefit from this because they can better plan when they can expect (round about) a new Camel version. Have a nice weekend, Christian
