On 9 February 2017 at 03:12, Matthias Bussonnier <
[email protected]> wrote:

> For example, several developers were surprised yesterday with the
> announcement of an upcoming notebook 5.0 release, and are now
> struggling to catch up on what is new and to test their
> plugins/extensions. There are likely others in the community who did
> not realize the 5.0 release was so close, who would need some time to
> test their extensions/plugins and give feedback.
>

The notes from last week's meeting do say:
"Currently going through issues to try to get 5.0 out as soon as possible.
Hopefully Beta next month. "

So this shouldn't have come as a total surprise.

How would the team and everyone else feel if we encouraged Jupyter
> projects to open an issue when a major release started to take shape
> which clearly listed the planned schedule for the release and
> highlighted what was new in the release? The upcoming release and this
> issue would be announced on the mailing list. People interested in
> following the release updates could subscribe to this issue.


I think this makes sense for something like a major release of notebook.
Not so much for minor releases, or less prominent packages. I'd actually
like minor releases to involve fewer steps - this has been very noticeable
doing bugfix releases of IPython, where the release process doc lists 14
steps.

Thomas

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