>From the large consortium administration perspective, it's hard to plan around >how quickly the development team might be ready to release. Under the current >policy, 1.6.1.X, to which PINES migrated in April, will be EOL-ed. We plan an >upgrade to something in the 2.X series this fall, so the fact that 1.6.1 will >soon be out of community support is probably fine. But there have been, and >almost certainly will be again, other years when, for whatever reason, our own >upgrade cycle needs to be longer, and I would not want to have to explain to >our libraries that we are running on an out-of-support version of Evergreen >for, say, a six month stretch before our next upgrade window.
I've said this before on this list, but whatever the release cycle needs to be in order to keep a good development pace (because keeping developers going strong is obviously a huge priority for open source projects), I would be most comfortable with a timed support policy (probably 12 months minimum) so we can plan our upgrade windows far into the future and not just around whenever the development team deems that a new release is appropriate. That's my two cents! ;-) Thanks for bringing this issue to the list, Jason. Chris ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Etheridge" <ja...@esilibrary.com> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > <open-ils-gene...@list.georgialibraries.org>, "Evergreen Development > Discussion List" > <open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org> > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 3:32:48 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] community support policy for Evergreen releases? > During the Community meeting in IRC today, I asked "if we really want > to push out 2.2 quickly, might we extend support for whatever version > would be falling off the support truck? or is that a bad idea?" > > According to the last policy we came up with, 1.6 would be deprecated > as soon as 2.1 hits, and 2.0 will be deprecated as soon as 2.2 hits. > There were musings about time-based support periods and Long Term > Support releases, and it was decided we'd talk about such things on > list. > > So. Discuss. :) > > -- > Jason Etheridge > | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: ja...@esilibrary.com > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
