>From incubating perspective i think its pretty good to have a release even when its "only" a bugfix release. You can learn more about the process at apache and attract people to this project. And finally it's one more step to graduation. I think this will take so long after a first release.
Best regards, Christian On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Tobias Schlitt <tob...@schlitt.info> wrote: > Hi all, > > so, now that we have a release process in place, PEAR channel setup > triggered again and already some contribution approaches, we should > think some more about a first official release of Zeta. Still, there are > some things to be discussed beforehand. > > Since we don't have that many new features / components, yet, I would be > in favor of doing a bug fix release as the first step. This allows us to > give new features / components more time until the summer release, but > still provide value to our users. What do you think? > > If we go for a bug fix release rather soonish, we need to come up with a > release number. The last eZ Components release was 2009.2.1. A feature > release right now would be called 2010.2 (second scheduled release in > 2010). Although we do not release new features, that sounds like the > release number to go. What do you think? > > If we go for a release rather soonish, I would appreciate if some more > open bugs could be fixed until then, so we should have a small > development phase beforehand. To make that clear: If we really want to > go the way for a release, I would expect all people on the list to join > forces in respect to: > > - Running tests > - Investigating issues > - Checking docs > - Providing patches > - Incorporating patches (for those with commit access) > > Maybe we should announce something like a bug-hunt week (or 2), to > motivate people? > > So, what do you all think about this direction? > > Regards, > Toby > > -- > Tobias Schlitt http://schlitt.info GPG Key: 0xC462BC14 > Want to hire me? Need quality assurance? http://qafoo.com > eZ Components are Zeta Components now! http://bit.ly/9S7zbn > -- http://www.grobmeier.de
