Now that Django 1.8 is released, I wanted to bump this thread for discussion so we can hopefully ratify this schedule or modify it based on feedback. In particular, I heard a concern that a six month release schedule may be too often for the community. On the other hand, I think smaller releases would make incremental upgrades easier.
One difficulty could be if third-party packages try to support every version since the last LTS (this seemed to be common with 1.4). A 6 month release schedule would mean 5 versions of Django until the next LTS, instead of 3 as we had since 1.4, so more `if DJANGO_X_Y` conditionals. One idea is that third-party packages could declare their own "LTS" versions (if needed) and drop support for older versions more freely in future development. On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 8:13:11 PM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: > > With the release of 1.8 coming up, it's time to think about 1.9! I've > suggested some dates below. The schedule is similar to the intervals we > used for 1.8 with the final release date planned for about 6 months after > 1.8 final (barring unforeseen delays, 1.8 will be released about 7 months > after 1.7). Please voice any thoughts or concerns. With this schedule it > seems that any GSoC work would likely be included in 2.0. If you have any > big features planned, please add them here: > https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.9Roadmap > > July 20 - Alpha (feature freeze) > August 21 - Beta (only release blockers fixed after this) > September 18 - RC (string freeze for translations) > October 2 - Final > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/0df00068-112f-4e98-9201-78d6ba9ef97c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
