+1

Thanks
-Vincent

PS: Thanks Marius for having handled this :)

On Aug 6, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> One of the main goals of 4.2 release was to be able to upgrade an
> XWiki farm in a few minutes. Thomas has started working on this and I
> need to improve the UI which is currently very minimal. We are pretty
> late overall and one way to still have this in 4.2 is to postpone the
> final release by adding a third milestone.
> 
> The current planning is:
> 
> * 4.2M2: 6 Aug 2012 (Today!)
> * 4.2RC1: 20 Aug 2012
> * 4.2Final: 27 Aug 2012
> 
> With a third milestone we could have this:
> 
> * 4.2M2: 6 Aug 2012 (Today!)
> * 4.2M3: 27 Aug 2012
> * 4.2RC1: 10 Sep 2012
> * 4.2Final: 17 Sep 2012
> 
> However, doing this means we're going to miss the unofficial "1 cycle
> per year rule" (we were already over 1 year at the current rate but
> it's going to be worse with this) which means we would need from now
> on to have shorter release cycle for the 4.x cycle:
> 
> * 4.3: October (2 months)
> * 4.4: December (1 month)
> * 4.5: January (1 month)
> 
> In any case the 4.4 and 4.5 release are supposed to be cycle
> stabilization releases so it's not a bad thing.
> 
> We just need to agree we're not going to put any more big stuff in the
> 4.x cycle. One thing we would still need to put in is a new skin which
> must go in 4.3 (would be too late afterwards).
> 
> I'm +1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marius
> 
> P.S.: This is actually Vincent's proposal, but I'm sending the vote
> myself because he's on holiday.
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