Hi Hans, Good idea! Two small sidenotes: 1) A release in early August might be a bit tricky with the summer holidays for a mostly European project team. 2) Since you're the only person who has created Apache Hop releases so far (big thanks for that!), we should consider delegating the release process to other PMC members.
Bart On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM Francois Papon <fpa...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > It's a very good thing to propose a release schedule and quarterly make > sense to be easily doable. > > +1 > > regards, > > François > > Le 18/03/2025 à 17:03, Hans Van Akelyen a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > We seem to have never really discussed a release schedule and have been > "winging it" a bit. > > For the past years we have done somewhat of a bi-monthly release > schedule but maybe we should vote a fixed yearly schedule. > > Advantage will be that our releases are more predictable and planned for > everyone. > > > > My proposal would be to go to quarterly releases but shift them 1 month > on the actual quarter to stay away from the holidays. > > so my schedule proposal would be: > > > > • cutoff 31/01, release early February > > • cutoff 30/04, release early May > > • cutoff 31/07, release early August > > • cutoff 31/10, release early November > > > > For the current release I would keep the existing schedule (cutoff > 31/03) and then switch to the proposed dates. > > > > Let me know what you think, > > > > Cheers, > > Hans > > >
