Re: Decide on official Isar release cycle

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

16/12/2025 09:37, 'Clara Kowalsky' via isar-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> last week at the Isar Community Meetup, the desire was expressed to 
> finally have a v1.0 Isar release to demonstrate project maturity, as 
> well as to have more releases per year, ideally quarterly.
> So far, the approach has been to release approximately one minor 
> release per year, which brings us to v0.11 at present.
> My suggestion would be to follow a similar approach as Debian and have 
> a major release every two years, along with a minor release every 
> quarter.
>
> How should we proceed? Which strategy do we want to establish?
> Ideally, we could release the first major version in January and then 
> proceed with a quarterly cycle.
>
> Best regards,
> Clara Kowalsky
>
Hello Clara,

I think Isar is looking stable enough to have v1.0 release.
But we should choose the date carefully, because it will require some
pre-release work (like retesting all the targets) every year on this period.
Some steps I hope will be automated soon, while some still require manual
involving.

Also following should be taken in account:
- Incomming commits activity. It is usually variable during the year.
- Debian releases. Few months after and before Debian release date don't 
look
like stable base point.
- Any holidays when people can be on vocations.

Having all this in mind my suggestion is February.

Regarding the period of releases not sure we need to have 4 minor 
releases per
year, because preparations will probably be the same as for major ones. 
Maybe
having one stable release every year will be more useful and will allow 
to have
some big changes more "polished" to the moment of the release.

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