Hi Adam, First of all: Great work!
I am happy to give it a try if you are willing to help me to do it! ;) Regards, Adam > On Jan 23, 2026, at 10:44 PM, Adam Monsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi y'all, > > release ready > > I was able to shorten the last release from 17 to 6 days because the develop > branch was already in a release-able state > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/70j8s1wkk7mj2ho86kr5vnmf96yls04s>. > > I propose we try to do this always > <https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/5379>. That is, we keep the build > passing and keep incomplete features off develop. Thoughts? > > vNext release manager > > Is anyone interested in doing this for the next (quarterly) release (in > March)? Let me know. Ideally you're already a member of the PMC, but it may > be possible for any committer to do it. > > I was discussing with James the other day how it would be good to have > redundancy here. The instructions > <https://fineract.apache.org/docs/current/#_releases> should be up to date, > and I'm happy to pair with someone on this since the process has changed a > bit. > > release branch/merge strategy > > Just to tie up an old loose end: I researched, discussed, and formalized > <https://github.com/apache/fineract/commit/67272d1aea163da9bebdf6ff56ead270bd47632d> > this process. I made no changes to branching: This is straightforward, you > just need a good commit to start from. I changed merging as documented to use > a traditional merge so git describe works as expected. > > Best and thanks, > -Adam > > -- > Adam Monsen > Software Engineer » Mifos Initiative > Release Manager » Apache Fineract > Author » Steadfast Self-Hosting > PGP key » 0xA9A14F22F57DA182
