Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-18 Thread Ben Shum
Moving towards a more solidly time-based release has been a constant challenge, but predictably having a March / September (not October, heh) with a beta cut-off a month before actual RC and release seems to lay out the timeline pretty thoroughly. With some minor wiggle room applied by each

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-18 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Bill Erickson beric...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, First, thanks for putting out a timeline. I am a little concerned about the pre-beta feature freeze. In the past, the merge deadline

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Erickson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Bill Erickson beric...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Mike Rylander mrylan...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, First, thanks for putting out a timeline. I am a little

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-15 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Bill, Dates look reasonable to me. Having gone through the alpha cutting stage myself now, I may agree with you that very few people tend to test them and provide feedback with the majority often waiting for the beta when more features have been added of note or substance. Or you know...

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.8 release scheduling

2014-12-13 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, I'm attempting to sketch out the release schedule for Evergreen 2.8, so I'd like to run some dates/thoughts by everyone. For starters, unless someone requests it, I'm not planning to cut an Alpha release. I've never seen anyone install one :). I'm happy to cut one if desired, though.