Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Regina Obe
> I would not take on the committment of "releases a new minor release every > 1-2 years". It's really not a mandatory thing, as nobody has fixed funding to > implement new features while it may be possible we raise funds for more > than one feature during a single year thus triggering 4 different

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Regina Obe
> Martin Davis writes: > > > Our development resource bandwidth, and also downstream pipeline size. > > > > I think we should have a policy of one minor release per year (if > > needed) And (try to) make them somewhat scheduled (which we already > do > > informally, to align with PostGIS). > In

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Regina Obe
> To me, this policy is about saying that after 4 years, it's basically out of the > question to have an updated version. Yes that is my intent. So A) no one not willing to fork over money dares to ask us to backport a change to what we consider "an ancient version" B) As developers not have

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Davis writes: > Our development resource bandwidth, and also downstream pipeline size. > > I think we should have a policy of one minor release per year (if needed) > And (try to) make them somewhat scheduled (which we already do informally, > to align with PostGIS). There's a big

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Martin Davis
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:35 AM Sandro Santilli wrote: > thus triggering 4 different minor > releases in that period (what prevents that?). > Our development resource bandwidth, and also downstream pipeline size. I think we should have a policy of one minor release per year (if needed) And

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-14 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote: > Here is my first pass at a policy. > > https://libgeos.org/development/rfcs/rfc11/ I agree with having an EOL policy. I would not take on the committment of "releases a new minor release every 1-2 years". It's really not a mandatory

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Regina Obe
to that date. Thanks, Regina > -Original Message- > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Paul Ramsey > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 1:57 PM > To: GEOS Development List > Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL) > >

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Paul Ramsey
hr > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 12:23 PM > To: GEOS Development List > Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL) > > Regina, > > Thank you! This will be a topic of discussion at the NumFocus funded > projects later this month where I will be representing GDA

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Regina Obe
Development List Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL) Regina, Thank you! This will be a topic of discussion at the NumFocus funded projects later this month where I will be representing GDAL. I will be keeping an eye on the RFC and this thread for aspects that should be discussed

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Kurt Schwehr
se, just saying we are okay with that. > > Thanks, > Regina > > > -Original Message- > > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf > Of > > Paul Ramsey > > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 11:37 AM > > To: GEOS

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Regina Obe
, Regina > -Original Message- > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Paul Ramsey > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 11:37 AM > To: GEOS Development List > Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL) > > As long as the word &

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Paul Ramsey
egina > > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of >> Paul Ramsey >> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 11:20 AM >> To: GEOS Development List >> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Lif

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Regina Obe
ginal Message- > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Paul Ramsey > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 11:20 AM > To: GEOS Development List > Subject: Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL) > > > > > On Sep 12, 2022, at 8

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Paul Ramsey
> On Sep 12, 2022, at 8:28 AM, Daniel Baston wrote: > > > What does it mean to "support" this stuff anyways? > > It's useful for maintainers to have a guideline to follow when backporting. > Do I backport only as far as I can apply the patch cleanly? Or is there a > list of "supported"

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Daniel Baston
> What does it mean to "support" this stuff anyways? It's useful for maintainers to have a guideline to follow when backporting. Do I backport only as far as I can apply the patch cleanly? Or is there a list of "supported" releases I should try to cover? Dan

Re: [geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Paul Ramsey
> On Sep 12, 2022, at 8:12 AM, Regina Obe wrote: > > I'd like to make an RFC proposing a standardish End of Like Policy > > Does anyone have an issue with that? Only insofar as there's this idea that we support any particular version at all. Honestly, there are some bugs I just cannot be

[geos-devel] End of Life Policy (EOL)

2022-09-12 Thread Regina Obe
I'd like to make an RFC proposing a standardish End of Like Policy Does anyone have an issue with that? I'm thinking of a policy along the lines of We support a release generally at most X plus years after the first version of it, but we have discretion to increase that if needed. X = 3 - 5