On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Simone Giannecchini <
simone.giannecch...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Thinking...
>
> My first and foremost concern is stability for our clients so that's
> why shortening the release cycle does not make me super happy.
> If we want to chatch up with the old March/Sept timing I am ok with
> shortening by 1M now and then another 1M next time.
>
> This way we will absorbe the 2.9 delay in two releases and I believe
> people won't cut their wrists if we are one month off for a couple of
> releases.
>

Right, it's less brutal than cutting 2.10.x down to a short 4 months cycle.
So we'd have 2.10-beta September 18th and final October 18th,
and 2.11-beta  Feb 18th 2017 and 2.11 final March 18th 2017...
And indeed as Ben notes, 2.9.2 would be the last one before 2.9.x
gets into maintenance. Along with the shortened 2.11 release cycle,
the users availability of 2.9.x would go down to 10 months instead of the
usual 12.

If instead we keep the development of 2.10 running till the next tick and
thus release in March 2018, we'd have a long 2.9.x stable, getting to 2.9.4
before getting into maintenance mode, and a longer 2.8.x too as a result.
2.10.x would get a 10 months development cycle, which will increase the
pressure
to backport stuff to 2.9.x I guess, and add some stabilization risk if too
many new features accumulate.
Can we venture a guess if this will materialize or not? like, how many core
changes do people
foresee for the next months? If most of the work is going to be on
community or
extension modules we'd have less of a risk of course, and it's also easier
to just backport them to stable to get the out to the user community.

For the sake of completeness, with Jody last time we also discussed a
potential
9 months cycle, but if memory serves me right it was going to put releases
in some hard to staff months of the year (and the "cycle" of release dates
would be hard to
remember, it would repeat every 36 months).... and of course the
stabilization risk
would be there at each release.

Personally I'm a bit twisted between the first two options, seeing benefits
and
drawbacks in both.

Cheers
Andrea

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