[ckan-dev] Update on 2.3 release

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi all,

As you are aware, we have been working on preparing the upcoming 2.3
release for a few weeks now and I thought I'd share an update on where
things are.

I'll start with the not so good news: we won't be able to release 2.3
in mid-December as we had planned. It was a bit optimistic to start
with, and the reality of the amount of work still to be completed has
proved it. Some of us core devs have had other commitments that
prevented us from focusing on this (and some of us have been ill :) ).

The good news is that a ton of really nice work is being done towards
2.3. There are major changes on the data visualisation front with the
new Resource Views and we want to make sure there is a clear upgrade
path and good user experience. Significant improvements are being made
to the DataStore and DataPusher to provide the foundation for better
data APIs and visualisations, and big internal refactorings will
improve performance and simplify extension development.

Our current aim is to branch and freeze the 2.3 branch the week before
Christmas (the W/C 15th December). This will allow deploying to
beta.ckan.org, building test packages and make the translations
available. The time required after this until the actual release will
depend on the issues identified during the stabilisation process, but
considering that during the Christmas break activity will likely slow
down a bit, I think a tentative date around mid/end of January is
realistic.

I hope that we can count on your help testing the new branch and
packages, testing extensions to make sure they work fine, submitting
your patches on pull requests and translating the new release!

I hope all this makes sense, I'm happy to discuss any queries that
people may have.

Cheers,

Adrià