I'm happy to talk generally about release strategy. Usually development occurs
on the development version and stable fixes are back ported to 2.3.x branch (or
other stable version) close to the time of a release.
The reason for the slow release schedule from my perspective is that I just
submitted my tenure package here at University of Pittsburgh. So over the last
year, my focus has been on ensuring tenure. There have been some other reasons,
but my time for Babel and other chemistry software (e.g., Avogadro) has been
scarce. That will significantly improve in the near future.
If we want to talk about a quarterly or 6-month release schedule, I'm game.
It'd help to have more people step up to help with this, since it usually falls
on Chris, Noel, or myself. If more people are contributing or willing to serve
as a "release manager," that would definitely make such a schedule easier.
That's my $0.02..
-Geoff
On Oct 2, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Maciek Wójcikowski <mac...@wojcikowski.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to bring the topic of release frequency of OpenBabel to the table.
> Since OB was migrated to the GitHub its development has speed up noticeably.
> Last release 2.3.2 was almost one year ago, and I think it's good time to
> discuss that matter. One major problem I've noticed is that many commits are
> rather bugfixes and minor enhancements, rather than changing ABI/API. And
> those bugfixes are rather usefull to have, so the real solution is to use
> development version.
>
> I believable that the best route we could take here is similar to RDkit is
> having. I'd like to propose to enumerate the API/ABI versions and introduce
> quarterly code freezes with all the bugfixes and major enhancements, f.e. the
> next release could be named 2.4_2014Q1 and so on.
>
> What do you think about such release strategy?
>
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> Maciek Wójcikowski
> mac...@wojcikowski.pl
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