[tei-council] next release?

[James Cummings]

That to me looks like a good reason to go with the 25th as our 
proposed date again. Unless anyone screams violently against 
that, I'm putting it in my calendar and hope Gaby does the same. :-)

Remember, although it would be good to get everything implemented 
that we decided, the benefit of sorting out the release process 
is that it means we can, if necessary, have later releases as 
well.  The TEI has traditionally (well certainly since launch of 
P5 in 2007) had releases twice a year, and I don't think we 
should be frightened of upping that number significantly.  (On 
the other hand, we don't want to be making monthly releases, I 
don't think!?)

-James


On 25/04/12 22:02, Gabriel BODARD wrote:
> The first week of June is likely to be bad for me; I'm back from
> international travel around the 4th, I think, and will be groggy the
> first couple days after that. So if not May 25th, then best to put it
> off by two weeks. (Or someone else be launch technician...)
>
> G
>
> On 24/04/2012 10:42, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> What do others think? We can of course move releasing back to
>> whenever we've finished a majority of tickets, but I'd prefer
>> sooner rather than later and a deadline that forces us to get
>> stuff done.
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that we probably don't need to telco before
>> this release (we can, after all, conduct business on the mailing
>> list), but would do so shortly after the release to get updates
>> on the longer-term issues and reports from the council working
>> groups.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> On 23/04/12 22:20, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> Isn't May 25 roughly in the middle of LREC? Could we shift by a week
>>> from then, please?
>>>
>>> (I actually intend to be ready with my stuff [and possibly more] in
>>> advance this time, but I've made some such totally honest promises to
>>> myself and to the world recently, several times, and with meager results...)
>>>
>>> Ah. Will we telco before releasing?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>      P.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/04/12 17:47, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How about we set a notional target release date of 25 May?  (This
>>>> is about 5 weeks from now.) If we assume that we want most things
>>>> completed by the end of Sunday 20th, to allow time for
>>>> proofreading and error spotting.
>>>>
>>>> Does that sounds reasonable to most people?
>>>>
>>>> Gaby: Most importantly, does the proposed Release Technician like
>>>> these dates?
>>>>
>>>> -James
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21/04/12 18:50, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>>> Three weeks will be a bit tough for me, and a couple of the tickets I
>>>>> have might turn out to have unpredicted side-effects (like the tei_
>>>>> prefix). As long as we have the option to launch without the change if
>>>>> it proves difficult, we could go with three weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> The attributes-without-examples problem is so large that we'll just have
>>>>> to hack away at it steadily.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12-04-21 04:03 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>>> something we forgot to debate in Ann Arbor was a timetable
>>>>>> for the next release, I think? i.e. what is the due date for
>>>>>> everyone to complete their ticket work so that Sir Gabriel
>>>>>> of B'odard can undertake his Quest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> speaking for myself, if I don't do my assignments
>>>>>> more or less immediately I will not get to them for ages,
>>>>>> so I favour a short window (say, 3 weeks).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford