I'm not entirely sure we are talking about the same thing. As I wrote in the document I sent to start this thread: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Release+Management
"Release branches are created every two months at the beginning of the following month from the changes that were merged by the last day of the previous month. If a feature is almost but not quite done at the end of the month, the release is not delayed for the feature. That feature goes into the next release scheduled for two months later." If we choose to work according to the plan I described, then we would be working on a date-driven cadence, at least as I understand it. Of course we are releasing features and not tool bundles, so we won't make a release if there are no changes merged in those two months. If there's even one change, I would expect a release. And if that change is finished two days after the deadline, I would expect the release to come at the next two-monthly release. Gitlab does something similar, but with a release period of one month: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/07/why-we-shift-objectives-and-not-release-dates-at-gitlab/ Greets, Myrle *Myrle Krantz* Solutions Architect RɅĐɅЯ, The Mifos Initiative [email protected] | Skype: mkrantz.mifos.org | http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Markus Geiss <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/07/2016 05:36 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Fin Fans, >>> >>> To start the conversation on release cycle, I've documented my suggestion >>> here: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Release+Management >>> >>> The additions to what was there before consist of: >>> * release cycle length added >>> * soak period shortened to better match release cycle length >>> >> >> Would it be possible to spell out your release cadence model more >> explicitly? >> Is it a date-driven cadence (like Ubuntu, lets say) or a feature-driven >> one? >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> > Given that we are releasing a software product, not a distribution of a > certain kind, e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS, Mint, I think a feature-driven > model. > > The development of Fineract will be driven by user requirements, > specific to the platform. Bundled libraries will only have influence > on the release schedule if a security issue was detected and fixed. > > Best, > > Markus > > .::YAGNI likes a DRY KISS::. >
