Obsolete: Release Strategy

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Releases

Maintained Releases (LTS = long term support)

• Cycle: one time per year, 2nd Monday of June
• Next Release: 14th of June
• SVN: Release Branch that is being maintained until the next LTS-release

Unmaintained Releases

• Cycle: two times per year, 2nd Monday of October and February
• Next Releases: 11th of October and 14th of February
• SVN: Trunk

Short Term Release Strategy

• triage > 400 bugs
• create an inventory list of functionality to find out...
  • ... what is core
  • ... what is obsolete
  • ... what is the stability
• release LTS without critical bugs in core functionality
• release LTS with inventory list and not tagged like "stable"

Obsoletion of functionality

• features that are either incomplete or do not have a maintainer will be inactivated in next LTS release.
• If then still no maintainer was found functionality is deleted for next LTS release
• According to current release cycle it takes two years until an abandoned feature is removed

Long Term Release Strategy

to be developed...