Hello,

The 1.21 cycle is winding down with essentially zero actionable items
remaining, so it seems like a good time to send a mail related to this.

The ticket for the proposed scheduling and (more strict) methodology for
the 1.22 release has been up for a couple weeks now without further
comments (https://phab.enlightenment.org/T7169), and probably there should
be some discussion at some point? Stefan isn't managing 1.22, so if a plan
isn't finalized by the time the current release ships then we are
effectively no longer in a development/release cycle. Not having a clear
and defined plan that the project adheres to for a release is how we have
ended up with uncomfortably long development/release cycles like 1.21, so
let's try to avoid that.

There's a number of items already up in the feature proposal query (
https://phab.enlightenment.org/maniphest/query/NIFx8sASYimQ/), and all of
them seem reasonable so far--they can all likely be completed during 1.22,
which is a good thing.

Lastly, the release team (
https://phab.enlightenment.org/project/members/233/) still has very few
members. It's currently my opinion that if you aren't a member of this team
then you are forfeiting your right to have input in the decision-making
process related to how and when releases are executed; this is the group of
people who are committing their time to the hard work of coordinating
releases, and past cycles have shown that anyone who is not putting in the
time and work here is more likely to impede and pointlessly block releases.
If you are a part of the release team then you will be expected to do
actual work related to releases. This is not a "join because there's a
button to click and then go idle" group. Ideally we will have enough active
members that it's no longer a single person doing everything related to
releases anymore and so that we can have fewer disruptions in the planned
release scheduling.

Regards,
Mike
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