Re: [ide-dev] Dropping the release names (Neon, Oxygen) from user downlo

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian de Alwis" <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Discussions about the IDE" <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, 28 April, 2016 6:50:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Dropping the release names (Neon,	Oxygen) from user downloads
> 
> On 28-Apr-2016, at 11:24 AM, Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The June release, where major version changes are allowed for plug-ins
> > would not be 2017.2. It would mark the first of the releases in that year
> > and would be just 2017. My point was you can't name the minor releases
> > that occur in the next year by the year they release in, but what they
> > update. And that could cause confusion.
> 
> Could we consider moving the big release date from June to January?  We
> already have slow-down period in the weeks before the big release, and we
> could do that for Dec 15.  The big release would be first Monday in January.

I think this would be really bad. First it will mean doing critical fixes and etc. (which happen no matter what) being done around Christmas with all the burden put on releng/PMC approvals and etc. Second, historically most changes go in M4-M6 which would happen to be summer period with many people on vacation making it even more disorganized.

Regards,
Alex

> 
> 
> Brian.
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Alexander Kurtakov
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