Re: [xml] Moving to time based releases

[Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 gmail com>]

2016-04-15 6:32 GMT-06:00 Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>:
>     Hi everbody,
>
>   It's both too easy to let things slip and very painful to procrastinate,
> so to limit both and try to make the audience happier, I have decided to
> switch libxml2 and libxslt to time based releases. At the tune of 2 releases
> per year, considering the stability of the code I think it's reasonable.
> For simplicity I will release both on the same day.
>
>   So what does that mean ?
>
> - that libxml2-2.9.4 should be out on May 20
> - that libxslt-1.1.29 should be out on May 20
> - that there should be a release candidate 1 around May 1st for both of
>   them then an RC2 around the 10th May and a push on the 20
> - that if you have a patch posted to either list or bugzilla which wasn't
>   commented on or applied, it's fine and recommended to pester me with
>   a private email (might be good to rebase in case that's a really old one)
> - if we are getting close to May 1st and your patch isn't in, raise the
>   point here, me and Nick Wellnhofer on the XSLT side will make sure they
>   go in.
> - if after May 1st there hasn't been an RC1 people should complain here
>   in case I forgot my promise (and same for RC2 and final)
> - and around Nov 1st watch for another cycle
>
>  I really hope this works, that's what I did for my other project (libvirt
> but with a 1 month cadence) and this really improves everybody's life!
>
>  So send those requests (Patrick Monnerat and Alex Henrie, no need to send
>  again now) for patch needing processing,

Thanks. I agree that time-based releases make sense for a project like this.

-Alex