[RFC] Releases planning

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 10/7/2010 11:07 AM, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> On 07/10/2010 17:47, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>>>>>>> Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:
>>     >> +
>>     >> + * there should not be more than 2 releases in the same week (but the
>>     >> +   Release Manager is free to ignore this (get in touch with packagers
>>     >> +   though),
> 
>>     > Do packagers prefer this rule?
> 
>> Yes, I'd like to know too :) Hey packagers ! What do you think ?
> 
> I would prefer to avoid task switching, so my first gut is to say no,
> but I have avoided building win installers for 2.1/2.0 without
> complaint, so I guess it's irreverent.
> 
> Gary

Well, probably irrelevant :).

I've noticed that: https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+download
no longer has the 2.0 series on the main page.

Looking at the download counts doesn't give me a clear idea of what's
going on. It is *definitely* true that people prefer to download the
"stable" releases (ones without a 'b' in them).

2.0.0	5,879
2.0.1	12,625
2.0.2	8,079
2.0.3	8,189
2.0.4	5,731
2.0.5	   17
2.1.0	5,419
2.1.1	32,000
2.1.2	2,036
2.1.3	No setup.exe
2.2b2	1,906
2.2b3	  136
2.2b4	1,721
2.2.0	7,350
2.2.1	3,557
2.3b1	  107

So having the latest minor release from the stable series is the most
important one to build. The latest beta release is probably lower on the
list (though the people who run it are probably much more likely to give
us useful feedback about it).

There were definitely a lot of people using 2.1.1, but I'm guessing most
migrated to the 2.2 series.

There is a definite tail-off in interest in the 2.0 series. Going from a
peak of almost 13k downloads to a total of *17* downloads of the latest
available version.

John
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