On 7 April 2013 20:27, Mathieu Saby <mathieu.saby@univ-rennes2.fr> wrote:
Hello Maybe you will not agree with me, but here is my personal opinion about release rythm : 6 month between each "major" release seems quite a short delay. In France we have libraries using 3.10 (I think only my library for the moment), 3.8, probably 3.6, 3.2 (with a lot of local changes). In some monthes, we will have libraries using 3.12, 3.10, 3.8 etc
For a library a 6 month rythm means updating 2 times Koha each year. Before and after each change, you need to test the new version, to train colleagues, to update documentation, to signal new bugs to your vendor if you have one... You can do that if you have a big team, and the help of a vendor. This is not the case of all libraries...
Ahh but that is precisely why we support versions for at least a year, for example we are releasing 3.8.12 in 15 days. So that libraries do not have to upgrade every 6 months, they only do if they want the new features, we release bug fix releases so that they can get the benefit of those, without having to do a major upgrade. So perhaps the real problem is one of communication, to negate the perception you have to upgrade every feature release. As for the other issues, making a bigger release doesn't change the amount of work that has to be done, it just makes it all need to be done in less time, ie the translation and testing and bugfixing gets crammed in at the end. Chris