GSIP 148

GSIP 148 - Absorb 2.9 release delay within the 2.10 and 2.11 releases

Overview

GSIP-142 resulted in a two months delay of the GeoServer 2.9 release. Compensate for the delay by reducing 2.10 and 2.11 releases to a 5 months cycle.

Proposed By

Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime

Assigned to Release

Affects the schedule of 2.10 and 2.11

State

Choose one of:

• Under Discussion
• In Progress
• Completed
• Rejected
• Deferred

Motivation

The two current months delay accumulated in 2.9 moved the releases to November and May. This has awkward consequences for the autumn (northern hemisphere) release since:

• It mis-aligns us from FOSS4G enough that we won't be able to make a beta/final release during it
• Makes it harder to find volunteers as it places the release too close to the end of year crunch

Proposal

Compensate for the delay by reducing the 2.10 and 2.11 releases by one month, bringing 2.11 back to March and 2.12 to September. The updated schedule would be:

Date	GeoTools	GeoServer
2017-03-18	17.0	2.11.0
2017-03-03	17-RC	2.11-RC
2017-02-18	17-beta	2.11-beta
2017-02-18	16.2	2.10.2
2017-01-18	15.4	2.9.4
2016-12-18	16.1	2.10.1
2016-11-18	15.3	2.9.3
2016-10-18	16.0	2.10.0
2016-10-01	16-RC1	2.10-RC1
2016-09-18	16-beta	2.10-beta
2016-09-18	15.2	2.9.2
2016-08-18	14.5	2.8.5
2016-07-18	15.1	2.9.1

Feedback

This section should contain feedback provided by PSC members who may have a problem with the proposal.

Tasks

• Update the the release schedule page

Backwards Compatibility

No known backwards compatibility issues.

Voting

• Alessio Fabiani: +1
• Andrea Aime: +1
• Ben Caradoc Davies: +1
• Brad Hards: +1
• Christian Mueller:+1
• Ian Turton: +1
• Jody Garnett: +1
• Jukka Rahkonen:
• Kevin Smith:
• Simone Giannecchini: +1