I agree with moving the target date for 3.7.0 and only releasing 3.5.5 and 3.6.2 for now.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:20 PM Florian Hockmann <f...@florian-hockmann.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > > our last release was already in July, and I think we now have a lot of > contributions in the dev branches, so I'd like to propose we do a release > soon. > > > > Now, the question is: Do we only want to release 3.5.5 and 3.6.2 or do we > also already want to release 3.7.0 at this point? > > > > The CHANGELOG for 3.7.0 currently lists a few changes, but I think the only > major change is the added support for mid-traversal E()-steps.[1] Our > current plan for the 3.7.0 release however lists quite a number of features > that we wanted to implement in that version.[2] > > We can now either decide to move the features that are not implemented yet > (and not expected to be implemented in the next few weeks) to version 3.8.0 > or not release 3.7.0 at this point and instead move its target release date > to 2023. > > > > If we decide to release 3.7.0 at this point, then we should also discuss > whether we want to continue supporting the 3.5 line or making 3.5.5 the > last > release. If we want to continue supporting it, then we have 4 active dev > branches (3.5-dev, 3.6-dev, 3.7-dev, and master for 3.8.0). > > > > I suggest that we move the target release date for 3.7.0 to 2023 as most of > the planned features are not ready yet and because most (all?) graph > providers haven't even updated to 3.6 yet which also means that we probably > want to continue supporting 3.5. Having to support 4 branches however adds > some burden to our development workflow. > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > Now to 3.5.5 and 3.6.2, I think we have quite some contributions ready for > these releases, including some updates that fix security vulnerabilities. > Are there any open issues / PRs that should definitely be included in these > releases? > > > > [1]: > > https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.asciidoc#tinkerpop > -370-release-date-not-officially-released-yet > <https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.asciidoc#tinkerpop-370-release-date-not-officially-released-yet> > > [2]: > > https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/docs/src/dev/future/index.as > ciidoc#37x---target-22q4 > <https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/blob/master/docs/src/dev/future/index.asciidoc#37x---target-22q4> > >
