[Mythtv-translators] FYI - Planned 0.26 release schedule

[Nicolas Riendeau]

Hi Florian!

On 7/11/2012 9:44 AM, Florian Bittner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do you mean July/August this year? :-)

Yes... (-;

>
> What is the reason for this fast coming next version?
>

Having shorter release cycles (releasing a new version) has been our 
target for a while, our most recent releases (0.25 excluded) were done 6 
months apart.

0.25 was an exception in that regard because we were working on several 
large features so a short release cycle wasn't possible.

0.26 will contain all the current features of master (the development 
branch) and fixes which could/were not backported to 0.25-fixes (or were 
only backported partially to limit how intrusive the modifications to 
our stable branch were). Everybody's need is different but I know some 
people have been eagerly waiting for some of those in a stable branch.

A lot of work is now done in separate branches to keep the main 
development branch, master, stable enough to allow for shorter release 
cycles such as this one (4 months being the shortest and 8 should 
normally be the longest).

> I just upgraded to 0.25!

And all this time you were missing on those new 0.25 features? (-;

If 0.26 doesn't have features or fixes you are looking for you can stay 
on 0.25 for now (but please keep those updated translations coming... 
(-; ) as it will always be possible to upgrade later (either to 0.26 or 
a subsequent version). The procedure to upgrade between versions might 
be different depending on how many versions there are between the 
version you are upgrading from and the version you are upgrading to but 
it will be possible.

(Personally I can't wait so I'm always running master on my "production" 
backend to have all the latest features... (-; )

Thank you very much for your work and have a nice day!

Nicolas