[ckan-dev] release date for 2.4

[Steven De Costa]

Two thumbs up is a good start :)

I'd add that part of the motivation for routine six month releases is to
allow a commercial ecosystem to then build their own roadmap on top of that
of CKAN cycle.

This will help paid members of the association justify the business case
for investment in the project, whether it's in-kind or cash.

The main idea I have for release management is to break apart the product
definition from the product development and product support workloads. Then
we can recruit different types of people with great skills into each area
of effort. (No exclusions though. People can get involved in all areas if
they wish)

In addition, the product definition team would release EOIs to identify if
there are funding sources that could then be used to accelerate development
of features. A fund for feature X would then be market demand driven. The
vendors listed as CKAN suppliers could then pitch to develop feature X as a
paid project.

Some conflict of interests need to be managed, but I figure that would be a
great problem to have if we first had the funding created :)

The C&C Team would have the job to promote roadmap features and attract
funding.

I think much of the technical release management would remain in the tech
team as it has. They'd just have a deadline constraint for shipping. But,
they potentially have a lot more support from other teams too.

My own experience with 2.3 was that I really wanted to help, but for
various reasons it was hard. A lot of my suggestions here are taken from
that experience and thinking about ways companies like mine or initiatives
people like me can support might more easily be leveraged to ship new
features.

I have zero criticism and all applause for everyone involved in the 2.3
release. In fact my deep gratitude is a debt I need to repay.

#WeAreCKAN
Steven

On Monday, March 16, 2015, Claire Reis <Claire.Reis at umanitoba.ca> wrote:

>  I think releasing 2.4 in September is a great idea as well.  Geospatial
> is also of interest to our group as we add more datasets and upgrade our
> CKAN instance (http://130.179.67.140/).
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> I’d also be interested to hear more about your plans for release planning
> and management activities Steven.
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> Cheers,
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> Claire
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> *From:* Ross Jones [mailto:ross at servercode.co.uk
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ross at servercode.co.uk');>]
> *Sent:* March 16, 2015 03:37
> *To:* CKAN Development Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [ckan-dev] release date for 2.4
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> Hi Steven,
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> That sounds great to me - what does everyone else think? It's be great to
> get the community's opinion on whether that would be too soon, just about
> right etc?
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> My hope is that with more frequent releases the upgrade process would be
> even simpler and we can share around the workload of managing the release.
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> We've had a couple of people express interest in Geospatial and Workflow
> as things that could be prioritised - and I think, particularly the
> workflow in particular might be a really good place to start.
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> Cheers
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> Ross
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>  On 14 Mar 2015, at 03:39, Steven De Costa <
> steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steven.decosta at linkdigital.com.au');>>
> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> Further to the comment from Ross about the roadmap and heading toward a
> 2.4 release I discussed this with Rufus last night.
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> I'm keen for us to target 4 September as the release date and work
> backwards from that as a hard deadline.
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> What are the reactions to that date and suggested approach?
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> I'm keen to pull more people into the dev work and would do whatever I can
> to help. I say that also from my C&C Team and Steering Group perspectives.
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> I also have a few ideas on how to support release planing and management
> activities, largely from a non dev track, so that the dev folks can be 100%
> on the code and coolness of CKAN.
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> Cheers,
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> Steven
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