wise decision! I think 2 yearly are also ok. best regards, antonia
2017-02-03 10:40 GMT+01:00 Lars Helge Øverland <l...@dhis2.org>: > Hi all, > > we would like to let you know that the release cycle for DHIS 2 will be be > shifting from 4 to 3 yearly releases. The upcoming releases look like this: > > 2.27: June 1, 2017 > 2.28: October 1, 2017 > 2.29: February 1, 2018 > > > A few observations led to this change: > > - The machinery around DHIS 2 of documentation, academy materials, release > notes, web pages and so on is getting larger and the overhead of updating > it for each release is becoming significant. > > - Implementing organizations seem to be lagging a few releases behind the > latest on average in terms of testing and roll-out. This leads to a large > demand for back-porting of fixes and even features, consuming a lot of > developer time. > > > So by reducing the number of releases by one we hope to reduce the > overhead and free more time for new development. We promise to remain agile > and user-driven in spite of this change. > > > best regards, > > Lars > > > > > > > -- > Lars Helge Øverland > Lead developer, DHIS 2 > University of Oslo > Skype: larshelgeoverland > l...@dhis2.org > http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-us...@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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