Release goals for 22.XX

[Paul D]

Wise words from the experienced!

If making a yearly release is unattainable, isn't making point releases 
more achievable? Even if it's adding a single commit, point releases 
send a signal to the outside world that the project is still active, and 
e.g. that security is in focus. Any point release can be done for 
trivial amendments and GUI fixes. ( I do not make light of the steps 
involved in doing a release ). The idea being that at least these point 
releases can be done regularly.


So the 'yearly' release is unattainable: is this largely due to the 
amount of new material that goes into the 'main/master/head' branch that 
needs to be picked and normalized and made stable (if that's how I might 
summarize making all the platforms behave consistently)? I would be fine 
without regular yearly releases. nightlies are available etc.



On 2021-10-06 07:58, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 30.09.2021 03:34, Rich Brown wrote:
>> My desire would be to name our next release "22.03", with a target 
>> release date in March 2022. And we should name the following release 
>> "22.09" with a release date in.... September. And so on - every six 
>> months (or whatever interval we believe we can sustain for the long 
>> term.)
> 
> This is absolutely undoable. We have too little manpower and too little
> people actually interested in preparing releases. It takes testing,
> checking feedback, reviewing bug reports, debugging issues, backporting
> changes. That is a lot of work.
> 
> Every time we have a discussion about releases there comes an idea of
> time-based releases. Also a lot of people have opinions on when to
> branch and how to proceed with development.
> 
> When it comes to actually working on a release there are very people
> that stay involved.
> 
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