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On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:01:52PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Community,
> 
> During Today's architecture committee meeting we discussed whether we
> should do feature or time based releases, and we kinda agreed that
> time based releases may be the way to go.
> 
> We're releasing 2.1.0 this Friday, May 15th 2021, and I'd like to ask
> about the cadence we want to follow ... and whether we could stop
> maintaining the stable-2.0 branch at the moment we release 2.1.0.
> 
> Can we consider doing a minor release every 8 weeks?
> If so, we could have:
> * 2.2.0-alpha0 -> Jun 11th
> * 2.2.0-rc0 -> Jun 25th
> * 2.2.0 -> Jul 9th
>   * Stop maintaining stable-2.1 branch
> 
> * 2.3.0-alpha0 -> Aug 6th
> * 2.3.0-rc0 -> Aug 20th
> * 2.3.0 -> Sep 3rd
>   * Stop maintaining stable-2.2 branch
> 
> * 2.4.0-alpha0 -> Oct 1st
> * 2.4.0-rc0 -> Oct 15th
> * 2.4.0 -> Oct 29th
>   * Stop maintaining stable-2.3 branch
> 
> ...
> 
> Obviously, if we need to get a 3.x we can obviously re-evaluate the
> schedule, and also re-evaluate whether or not to maintain the 2.x
> releases.

This sounds good to me, thanks for putting it together.

Cheers,
Samuel.