Better ways to track release items

Patrick Stephens

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Jul 2, 2021, 7:35:41 AM7/2/21

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Raised in Slack and on the forum too.

During the last Fluent community call I indicated both I and a few others I’ve seen in chat would like to be able to see what’s coming up in the next few releases as an informal roadmap. I took an action to try to start collecting suggestions on how we might do this and what kind of information people were after.

For me, it would be useful to know the timeline for the next release and what it will contain, the current releases are cherry picked so just because something is on master does not mean it will go in. I was also after a rough idea of things like 1.8 will include feature X.Anyone else after this or something different/similar? Any suggestions on how to do it or things not to do based on previous experience?

Easiest thing is probably to either add to this thread or message me direct. I’ll try to collate things for next call to suggest them.

Eduardo Silva

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Jul 14, 2021, 11:00:08 AM7/14/21

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hey Patrick!

thanks for raising this topic.

This requirement makes totally sense and we need to improve on that area. To get started, I think we have to explain the release model that we have and how do we manage them. What do you suggest to concentrate that info ?, github wiki ?

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Patrick Stephens

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Jul 14, 2021, 11:33:12 AM7/14/21

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Yeah I think that would be fine and would help with the PR process as well.

For me the main one is I see an issue, it gets fixed/merged so when and what release will it be in. Sometimes it's hard to tell due to cherry picking of releases.

I know github have got some new issues features and workflows so maybe that will help?

Patrick Stephens

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Jul 14, 2021, 2:06:15 PM7/14/21

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I would also like to see a longer term roadmap as well, with general ideas about features in major versions - I'm happy for it to be flexible on specific release timings but just a high level thing like "we're doing this with metrics in the 1.8 series, for 1.9 we are thinking of having this..."