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

Hi Jonny,

I agree major releases every 6 months were exhausting 😉

Now, as to formalising the minor updates,I  haven't given it much thought,
but one first question I have is,  what will happen when there's an
unexpected critical security bug and fix and the immediate need for
release? Will the process face that as a trigger?

thanks
Roberto

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 8:03 AM Jonny Bradley via TikiWiki-devel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Marc
>
> I agree, i think it's about right now - major releases every 6 months was
> just exhausting!
>
> We do need to release new version of 18.x (Jan 2021) and 21.x (Nov 2021)
> though, it's been far too long. Maybe we need a more formalised process for
> releasing minor updates? Roberto, what do you think?
>
> jonny
>
>
>
> > On 11 Aug 2022, at 19:23, Marc Laporte <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 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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