All,
I like the idea of keeping the twice-per-year tempo. Likewise, it sounds
like it can still be a feature-rich release even with the squeezed
development time. So I am sold! Though, skipping the October date in
favor of getting back on track in the Spring of 2021 doesn't seem like
the end of the world either :) - Perhaps a negative would be that it
would be a "huge" amount of changes which in-turn could have a larger
impact on bug reports for those that adopt it.
-Blake-
Conducting Magic
MOBIUS
On 6/18/2020 11:52 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
Hi,
Now that Evergreen 3.5.0 is nearly out the door, I have some thoughts
on planning for 3.6.
First, I suggest that we plan on a general release in October, though
perhaps more like the middle of the month rather than than the
beginning of it. Doing so would allow us to keep to a twice-a-year
tempo and not lose momentum like we might if we skipped the fall
release entirely this year. Pushing general release into November or
December would run into the winter holidays.
An October release would of course mean a shorter cycle, but I think
we can actually work that to our advantage by having the focus of 3.6
be catching up with the backlog of pull requests, particularly ones
implementing new features. At the moment, there are 52 pull requests
that are signed off and 155 that are not signed off; a release that
did nothing but merge a good chunk of these would nonetheless be a
featureful one indeed.
I'm not suggesting that 3.6 be just about the backlog; I know that
Bill is suggesting that the Angular catalog become the default and
that Equinox is planning on putting out big branches for the Angular
acquisitions work over the next few weeks. However, an emphasis on
reducing the backlog would both tidying up the bug list and deal with
the fact that some features have been waiting months or years for
review and merging.
What do folks think? And are there people interested in proposing to
become RM or co-RM for this cycle?
Regards,
Galen
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