Hi, On 26 October 2016 at 00:44, Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Extending impromptu IRC discussion today ... > > With the increased maturity and stability of OSGeo-Live we are considering > reducing the OSGeo-Live release cycle to once a year, releasing just before > the global FOSS4G. (Previously we have been releasing twice per year). > > With 8 years of continual development and refinement, and hundreds of > contributors, OSGeo-Live now boasts an extensive, thoroughly tested baseline > of quality software, documentation and translations. > > While we have considerably improved the automation of the OSGeo-Live build > process, with increased content and quality releases are still very > volunteer labour intensive. Each release requires a significant amount of > manual work to chase down projects, update documentation and translations, > test and fix releases. > > Also because of the depth of material, there is a reduced proportional > improvement of each release compared to the previous baseline. > > Therefore, we are considering reducing OSGeo-Live release cycle to once per > year, stretching out our release cycle and allowing the OSGeo-Live community > more time to maintain both new updates and our extensive baseline of > material. > > Thoughts? >
I fully agree to reduce the OSGeo-Live release cycle to once a year, but I would like to see an extended and longer release cycle because contributors can have more changes to contribute, specially to have a timeline like: - September - January: new software, update English documentation - February - June: beta/RC, translation updates, testing - July: release > Cameron Shorter > -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
