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From: Michal Mocny <mmocny@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:57:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: Frequency of releases
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I like it, but I would stress that this is "at most" once per week, not
necessarily "every week".  It should be fine to just skip a week if nothing
interesting landed.


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org> wrote:

> We talked a bit about how frequent to release plugins / plugman / cli
> during the hangout, but want to have a list discussion about it.
>
> Some points to think about:
> - It's convenient to be able to release at any time (get immediate
> feedback)
> - Users may get annoyed if we update too frequently (update once a day is
> annoying)
> - Batching releases will make release announcement blog posts feasible
> (same as last point)
>
> Right now, I've put on the wiki that:
>
> CLI, Plugman: Releases happen on Tuesdays
> > Core Plugins: Releases happen on Wednesdays
>
>
> https://wiki.apache.org/cordova/VersioningAndReleaseStrategy
>
> I chose arbitrarily, so now's the time to actually discuss what would be
> good here. Note that this is only for feature releases, and that emergency
> patch releases can still be done at any time.
>
> I'm now thinking that it would be nice to release both CLI/plugman and
> plugins on the same day, and combine the blog post for them. Instead of
> having an explicit "release announcement" blog post, we can have a "Last
> week in Cordova" post similar to http://peter.sh/category/last-week/.
>
> Thoughts?
>

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