Re: Future release schedule

2023-12-04 Thread Ralph Goers
Even though you probably all know, just for clarity our policy has been that every release is a patch release until it isn’t. That is, as soon as something other than a bug fix is added it becomes a minor release. Personally, I think this still makes sense as it avoids needing the extra branch.

Re: Future release schedule

2023-12-04 Thread Robert Middleton
>From a user perspective, sometimes having releases too often leads to upgrade fatigue. Eventually it becomes easier to not upgrade, because so many things have changed in the interim that it becomes very annoying to attempt to upgrade things. For comparison, Ubuntu will do releases every 6

Re: Future release schedule

2023-12-04 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi Piotr, I think scheduled releases that everybody can follow are great and your proposal makes sense. Does this also mean we don't have that many "noise" emails from upgraded dependency (releases)? I have come to realize in the past months that "inclusion" is most important, and that would

Future release schedule

2023-12-04 Thread Piotr P. Karwasz
Hi all, Since we have a fast and easy release process now and a release does not require a free weekend any more, I think we should have a regular release schedule. Unless something exceptional happens (e.g. big bug that renders `log4j-jcl` unusable ;-) ), I would propose to: * have a patch