On 13.12.20 23:34, mau...@smoors.de wrote:
Hi everyone,
as more and more features of Hydrogen 1.1 are getting ready, we should
talk about the roadmap or what releases we wish to make (and when). In
the last discussions,
we agreed on the fact that we would like to release more often then
before. But how should that look exactly? I suppose we should discuss
the following questions:
1) Do we want to keep the beta releases?
In the past, we made some (1,2,3..) beta releases for each Hydrogen
version. This has the advantage that Mac OS X and Windows Users (at
least those who do not
compile their Hydrogen on their own) can use those releases for
testing.I had the impression that a lot of users do not want to switch
to a git development version,
they wait for a beta release.
On the other hand, it always takes time to create a release and it
might make no sense if we want to achieve very short release cycles
(twice a year? even more often?).
The situation of the Mac OS X and Windows users might be helped if we
provide AppVeyor builds on a regular base (every month?), but i
suppose that would also
be coming close to releasing a beta :)
It depends of at which point in the developing cycle we release the beta
version. If it's at the very end, I have no objections to let the
release candidate (rc) absorb the beta release. If we do it halfway,
it's quite reasonable.
After all the dynamics of the release cycle will change a bit. Between
1.0.0-beta1 and 1.0.0-rc1 there were more than two years. Now this time
span will reduce to something like a month (?).
2) How often we would like to release?
Are we're trying to release once every year? Or twice? Or maybe every
two years?
I would vote for once a year. If we can do it fast that's fine. But we
should also not be overenthusiastic since we all have other stuff to do.
3) When do we want to "close" development for 1.1?
Soon. There are quite a number of fixes and improvements already. Mid
January seems sufficient to cover the PRs.
All the best,
Phil
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