Also, FWIW, I would like to propose that we consider slowing down the
release cycle, maybe going from 3 months to 4 or 6 months per release.
While we've still been getting strong bursts of activity, we've also been
seeing relative lulls now, and the project is definitely getting more
mature.  This might allow me time to update the book. ;-)

Of course, this is a tradeoff.  Getting new features out is important both
for the development of the features and for the utility of the project to
others.  Other projects release software based on some notion of how many
features/changes they've put into it.  We too could do that -- but I've
found in my professional life that such a way of releasing software often
either leads to chronic release stress or releases that are so long people
even forget what's in them.

Thoughts welcome on how we should manage release cycles going forward.

Karl



On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> MCF 1.6 is scheduled to be released on April 30, and should be completed
> on April 15th, if we stick to the standard three-month release cycle for
> this project.
>
> There are a number of tickets I'd love to get resolved in this timeframe.
> I've listed the key ones below:
>
> CONNECTORS-909: Upgrade to the latest ElasticSearch (Abe Shinichiro)
> CONNECTORS-856: Get a mock testing framework working (Alessandro
> Benedetti, largely)
> CONNECTORS-565: SharePoint 2013 support (Karl Wright)
>
> Please let me know if there will be any problem finishing these tickets in
> a month.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Karl
>
>

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