I think what is the need of the hour is to have a *Release Alignment Strategy*. Do we have a release plan that coincides with the release of all major dependency releases? e.g. Java releases its LTS every 3 years around September? SpringBoot follows a rough release cycle of 6 month with releases every May and November? A nice to have would be a plan that follows these major releases. It also makes it more credible, dependable and gives confidence of a matured and stable product?
On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM Ádám Sághy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > I dont disagree, but we have a couple way too early work. > > Let me give a try to find a commit which is the most “reliable”, maybe > cherry pick a little. > > Regards, > Adam > > On 2025. Oct 2., at 18:37, James Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Adam - Thanks. > > Today might be a good day to grab a commit point for the release. AFAIK, > the devs have finished some features as of yesterday and pushed some > additional clean up commits. There is always dev going on, so the task is > not to find the "perfect" point but one where the features are working well > enough for 90% of the users. I think that point is today. > > Does anyone disagree? > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM Adam Monsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks James. I'm happy to do this and I'm ready to start whenever. >> >> https://fineract.apache.org/docs/current/#_releases outlines a roughly >> 17-day process, so I'd expect the same for this release. >> >> *I need advice on when's a good time to start the process, and which >> commit to start from for the release branch*. @Ádám Sághy >> <[email protected]>, would you please advise? >> >> Release process streamline idea: We can branch for the release from any >> point we choose, so if we happen to have a known good commit (has all the >> right/complete features, none we don't want, and all tests passed) already, >> maybe we could use it as-is and shorten the release branch stabilization >> time. I'd guess the chance of this is small. >> >> re: automating the release process: Yep. This needs more/dedicated >> ideas/research/testing. >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM James Dailey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I’ve asked Adam Monsen to again be the release manager - we have some >>> issues to get into an official release. Can we get this out by Oct 7th? >>> >>> We are seeking to make the release process more streamlined and >>> automated as well. >>> >>> As part of this we will likely roll release 1.12.x to end of life. Some >>> important improvements like oauth changes cannot be backported. >>> >>> >>> >>> >
