Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
Reinhard Poetz skrev:
Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
Ralph Goers wrote:
I have no problem with this release as a first step, but I'd
hesitate to even call it 2.2M1. OTOH, if I had an idea of what our
subsequent milestones are this might make more sense to me.
Good point! Now, if you something label milestone or beta people have a
specific expectation. I don't think we meet these expectations, so I
would suggest calling this release alpha.
Before we decide what we call the releases exactly I want to draw our
attention to a decision we made long time ago. We agreed that we want
to change to time-based release cycles instead of the feature-driven
releases we had up to now which wasn't helpful in becoming more agile.
Taking this into consideration I think we can stick with giving our
releases the "milestone" postfix. The name "milestone" only says that
another period of development is over ("time-boxing").
We only need to decide how long the periods between releases should
be. I guess this will highly depend on the module. The most important
modules (e.g. cocoon-core, cocoon-forms, cocoon-template,
cocoon-javaflow, the archetypes, the deployment plugin) should be
released every 4 weeks, other modules every 3 months and there will be
modules that will only be released if required. Additionally we should
coordinate the release cycles so that at least twice a year, we
release everything at the same time (IIUC the Eclipse project wants to
make this happen for their universe with the "Callisto" initiative).
+1
I would however suggest that we follow the example from Eclipse and have
a milestone release every 6:th week instead of every 4:th. Considering
that we probably want to discourage large changes and encourage testing
the week before each release it gives us the possibility to develop 5/6
of the time instead of 3/4.
I don't have a strong opinion on the length of the period as long as we don't
count in years ;-)
so yes, every 6th week is fine for me.
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Reinhard Pötz Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach
{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}
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