Why the dislike for quick turnover? Could somebody present the arguments for people not having been at the BOF? People don't have to upgrade - unless its breaking changes that e.g. disable the possibility to download from the public toolshed which forced me to upgrade. The alternative to frequent releases are not better tested and documented releases. I think its impossible for the galaxy team to test on all the diverse configurations galaxy is deployed on. Then you really have accumulated many bugs, feedback from users comes in at once creating coordination need for developers going all at once into bugfixing mode for features they have worked on months ago etc… Then the fixes for these bugs also come only with the next release which is still many months away etc…. This makes it necessary to split development into major releases (say once a year) and minor, bugfix, releases (1-2 months after the major) - where is the gain for the users? I would not even split things between breaking changes and minor changes. I think this slows down development of the platform and what concerns people most, the tools, are developed independently of the platform and one can upgrade them any time. To give an example, the job_config is now much better than before and its good that I did not have to wait months from its development to deployment at our site. Now small additional features like setting the number of threads dynamically are suggested, and then I would have to wait again many,many months until the next release. Upgrading galaxy was o.k. and while its unfortunate to have to learn new settings and remember the old ones from sometimes not so good (but improving!) documentation, there is no way around it. I think I will now upgrade more often, because it went so well. I like "release early, release often". best, ido On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Dave Clements <clements@galaxyproject.org> wrote:
Hello all,
At one of the GCC2013 Birds of a Feather sessions the group was very clear that they would like to see less frequent releases of Galaxy. We're currently aiming to do a release every 2 months and have been pretty successful at making that target. In the past, we have tried doing releases more often and less often.
Is there a sweet spot for the time between releases?
Please reply to the group. We are interested in a discussion.
Thanks,
Dave C
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