Speaker: Fabien Potencier -- @fabpot https://twitter.com/fabpot
Announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en_US&fromgroups=#!topic/symfony-devs/oNaXdV5UGRU
Link: http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releases.html
- Over 1400 releases per month
- Hard to manage
- Calls for change
Release cycles = more feedback
- Shorter release cycles
- Only for main SF repo
- More frequent releases
- New features faster
- Coordinate timelines with popular OSS projects
- Time based releases
- 6 month release cycle
Development:
- 4 months
- Any new feature can be reverted if the feature can't be released on time for next version
Stabilization:
- 2 months
- Stabilize release, wait for ecosystem to catch up.
Support:
- 8 months
- Allows for dual support of rapid release and long term release
- Supported for 3 years
- Releases every 2 years
- First LTS release is SF 2.3
- Next is 2.7
- Project goal to avoid breaking backward compatibility
- Must retain backwards compatibility
- Will never break the core components
- Released after LTS 2.7