[TYPO3-core] Proposal for the upcoming Roadmap and LTS

[Christian Kuhn]

Hey,

+1 to the whole scenario.


Regards
Christian

On 10/06/2012 04:05 PM, Benjamin Mack wrote:
> To all the contributors out there,
> Olly, Michi, Helmut and me sat together during the T3CON and thought
> about the next releases, after taking all the input from the community
> we got from the last weeks and months. We made the following proposal
> that we think fits best. BUT we want and need your feedback so we can
> fine-tune and modify this proposal. Once we have a consensus I'd like to
> publish a news article in the next weeks, and put up these points on the
> Roadmap page of TYPO3.org so people know what they can expect.
>
>
> We want to make the following suggestion:
>
> 1) We really want to stay in the 6-month-release cycle
>   * it displays activity in our product
>   * it is easier to get changes / features in
>   * less discussions whether to merge features into existing stable branches
>   * it has been proven to be a good way in the last 3 years.
>
>
> 2) We want another LTS version
>   * Depending on the criteria of a project, there is a high demand for
> both (bleeding-edge features as well as long-term commitment)
>   * Therefore we see a need to keep up with the LTS versions
>   * A new LTS version shouldn't overlap too much with the existing one,
> which will expire in Jan 2014
>
>
> 3) Maintenance lifetime
>   * Currently we support every release for 18 months, except the LTS.
> This results in maintaining 4 to 5 versions at a time, which is a lot of
> work for the Release Teams.
>   * Therefore we suggest to only support the latest stable release and
> its predecessor, starting with the release of 6.0 - which means approx.
> 12 months for each version
>   * There would be no change to the LTS maintenance lifetime (3 years).
>   * The current stable release would get as much bug fixes as possible
> (same as right now)
>   * Other releases (predecessor, LTS) = get important and security fixes
> (similar to how we deal with 4.5 right now)
>
> 4) We don't see the need for defining 7.0 version - yet!
>   * We want to embrace 6.x just as we embraced and developed 4.x further.
>   * We want stable and consistent 6.x versions to focus on
> backwards-compatibility, maintenance and a high-quality product.
>   * If it makes sense after a couple of releases to make breaking changes
> or add large features, we are still able to raise the version number to
> 7.0, but this is not the case yet :)
>
>
> As a result, we propose the following schedule for the next versions:
>
> TYPO3 6.0
>   * originally scheduled for October 2012, now postponed to November 2012
>   * having all the goodies in there (Namespaces, FAL)
>
> TYPO3 6.1
>   * Release in April 2013 (just 5 months to keep up with the release cycle)
>   * It is just before T3DD13, to open up development for 6.2
>
> TYPO3 6.2
>   * Release in October 2013
>   * Marked as the LTS version, supported until October 2016.
>
> TYPO3 6.3
>   * Roughly scheduled for April 2014
>
> Apart from that we don't want to announce a 6.4, 6.5 or even 7.0
> versions (yet) because we don't really know yet where we will stand with
> TYPO3 CMS and where Neos will be in early 2014. Let's not promise
> anything that we cannot keep right now.
>
> Please think about it and tell us if you can agree with it via "+1/-1".
> If you disagree, also tell us why, so we can try to improve the proposal.
>
> Michael, Olly, Helmut, Benni.
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