When to update? I guess this helps tell us
When to update? I guess this helps tell us
Posted Aug 12, 2026 19:25 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: When to update? I guess this helps tell us by cerebus
Parent article: Django moves to an annual release cycle
One big benefit of time-based is that if someone misses the "train", it's pretty well scoped when the next one leaves. With feature-based, once a release date is announced, all kinds of "new" work springs up like weeds wanting to get released with everything else. When this "new" work ends up breaking CI, taking review resources away, or whatever (CI is much better now, but still not perfect), the release inevitably slips. The key to doing time-based is sketching out a timeline for the next release too so that when you say "not this release, maybe the next one", there's still a hazy, but discernible, point in the future to act as a goal.