Release plans for Kallithea

[David Bainbridge]

Hi all,

Like most companies these days we are heavy users of Git, and our primary repository management solution  is based on Gerrit, where we are active in the open source community, along with Google, SAP, CollabNet and others.

As part of my role, I have been monitoring Kallithea and this mailing list for some time, but as Thomas says there is an issue with perception. (I also monitor the commercial alternatives like GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and so on as well).

So here are a few thoughts that may help (or not!!) ...

If you are not releasing regularly you tend to slip off the radar. Having the most recent release being over a year old would demonstrate that the project is dead in the opinion of some. The mailing list shows a different view, of course, as does Openhub.net
https://www.openhub.net/p/kallithea

Developing without releasing means that features are just not getting out there to organizations that may want to adopt Kallithea.

As Thomas says, the release numbering also shows that Kallithea has not reached version 1 yet. If you are going to use an open source component as the primary way for managing repos containing your company's intellectual property then you are looking for something that has reached a level of maturity at which the community developing it is prepared to declare that the project is mature enough to at least start at 1.0!

So, from my perspective this is a really good move and puts Kallithea on the map, instead of in the heap marked 'pending'. 

We aren't using Kallithea yet, but this is going in the right direction!

I know the above takes a 'company' view of this, and of course this is not the whole picture. 

Regards

David Bainbridge

Ericsson

DAVID BAINBRIDGE
Product Manager SW Development
Strategic Product Manager, Configuration and Compliance Management
BNEP EITTE SP&S Platforms&Infrastructure

david.bainbridge at ericsson.com
www.ericsson.com


-----Original Message-----
From: kallithea-general [mailto:kallithea-general-bounces at sfconservancy.org] On Behalf Of Thomas De Schampheleire
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 15:21
To: Kallithea <kallithea-general at sfconservancy.org>
Subject: Release plans for Kallithea

All,

The last release of Kallithea dates back to more than a year ago, so we really need to make a new one, or better yet, three new ones. I had a chat with Mads and Andrew about it, and here is the proposed plan:

1. Stable release 0.3.3
First, create 0.3.3 based on the stable branch. In addition to the changes already on stable since 0.3.2, I have selected a number of changes from the default branch that I think should make it to 0.3.3. These changes are mostly bug fixes but also some small generic improvements with no risk.
These proposed extra changes can be reviewed at:
https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/pull-requests/352

2. Feature release 0.9
On the default branch there has been a lot of development since release 0.3, the last merge from default to stable (now almost two years ago). There are the big patch sets: migration from nose to pytest, migration from Pylons to TurboGears2, and the ongoing migration from custom styling to Bootstrap. And obviously there have been many other changes as well.
The plan is to finish the migration to Bootstrap and then create a 0.9 feature release. Any problems reported on 0.9 will be fixed and lead to the long awaited...

3. Release 1.0
As discussed recently, there are people/companies that do not consider Kallithea an option just because the version number is still in the 0.x range.
Moreover, the renewal of the test framework (pytest), Python backend
(TurboGears2) and frontend styling (Bootstrap) is an appropriate time to mark the 1.0 milestone.
In terms of features, the 1.0 release will be similar to the 0.9 release but with any reported problems fixed.


Feedback welcome!

Best regards,
Thomas
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