timeline/frequency for Dataverse upgrades

[Data CUHK]

Hi there,

I wonder if anybody knows the frequency of Dataverse upgrades. I can locate their information of all past versions launched via this link below, but it doesn't seem very intuitive to find the release date for each version. https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/versions.html

To facilitate planning, we are wondering how frequent Dataverse would release their upgrades. Are major upgrades being scheduled pretty regularly? 

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Qinqin

CUHK Research Data Librarian

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Qinqin,

We release Dataverse quarterly. That is, we plan to release quarterly. Sometimes we additionally ship what we call a "hotfix release" (e.g. 6.10.1) if there's some sort of critical bug.

The only place that I'm aware that we explain this (apart from in talks) is in the Developer Guide: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.12/developers/making-releases.html#introduction

If you think this information would be useful to put in a more user-facing place, please let us know! We do already link to upcoming milestones ( https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/milestones ) from the roadmap ( https://www.iq.harvard.edu/roadmap-dataverse-project ) under "Software" at https://dataverse.org .

As for the historical data, honestly, AI is not a bad way to get it. You can `git clone` https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse and ask AI to tell you about the tags, which map to releases, and when they were made.

I'll go ahead and attach the data for you from AI (Claude). And a fun timeline plot it made for me. And the code it wrote.

You could also get this data from the GitHub API, but this is an exercise for the reader.

Manually, you could page through https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/tags (again, a tag maps to a release) to see the dates for each release.

I hope this helps!

Phil

p.s. Technically, the hub has some of this data but not all of it, from a quick test: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-hub/issues/39 

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[Data CUHK]

Hi Philip,

Thanks so much for sharing the info! This was super helpful to understand the Dataverse version release timeline. It helps us to plan for staffing resources around future updates as well. 

Thank you again!

Qinqin