[gmx-developers] Plans for release-2019

[Kutzner, Carsten]

Hi,

> On 22. Jan 2018, at 10:01, Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Based on discussions both in the team and at the Gromacs developer conferences, we've converged to an early release schedule that we'd like to share with everyone.
> 
> As we've all seen, it simply doesn't work to have feature targets for releases, since that inevitably leads to slipping deadlines when we underestimate both the implementation and review work.
> 
> Instead, this time we will try to have firm date-based targets and make sure we put out the release late december. Based on that, we simply count backwards to come up with deadlines for various other steps:
> 
> 
> Oct 15: Release-2018 branch is created in Gerrit, and first beta.
> Nov 1: Second beta
> Nov 15: Third beta
> Dec 1: rc1
> Dec 15: (maybe) rc2
> Dec 31: Release
> 
> These are the only really firm dates. However, it also means that any significant change that should be in the release should not only have been pushed to Gerri, but it must be *merged* by Oct 15.
> 
> It's likely that everyone will be quite busy the last few weeks. In the end it is up to everyone to prioritise changes we want to go in, but if you have stuff that you want to go in, you should likely plan to be a really good Gerrit citizen and build karma by reviewing other changes :-)
> 
> And, in particular: For large changes touching lots of files, you should plan that it can take months to go through review, so those should likely be in review already late summer.
> 
> Finally, to facilitate the design review and reduce the amount of changes required in code review, we've decided it's a good idea for any large change to start with a Gerrit thread to discuss the design.
Gerrit or rather Redmine?

Best,
  Carsten

> That's not *formally* required, but if you don't have it, you should expect to instead get requests for large design changes during feedback :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Erik Lindahl <erik.lindahl at dbb.su.se>
> Professor of Biophysics, Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm University
> Science for Life Laboratory, Box 1031, 17121 Solna, Sweden
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