[Tiki-devel] The Tiki lifecycle is optimal (since 2018)

Marc Laporte <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.tiki.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Tiki community,

4 years ago, I wrote a summary of our decision at a TikiFest:
https://tiki.org/forumthread69969-A-large-majority-of-the-TikiFesters-want-to-move-to-a-3x8-month-lifecycle

Here is our process in great detail: https://tiki.org/Versions

I think it's optimal, and we should just continue like this for the foreseeable future.

As of now,
* 18x and 21x are security-fixes only
* 24x is bug fixes and minor, self-contained enhancements
* trunk (future 25x) is for major developments

For those that may have concerns that older LTS versions take away a lot of energy from developers that could be used for building the future: As we can see in commit logs, development on older versions naturally slows down. Any activity in old branches was either important (ex.: MySQL 8 support, security, etc.) or with no risk of regression.
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/21.x
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/18.x

So I consider our process as "optimal" and can't think of a way to improve it. Any changes would improve some aspects but would have drawbacks.

Best regards,

Marc

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