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Bug 534271

Summary: What does the change in Simultaneous Release cadence mean to our communities?
Product: Community Reporter: Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component: Cross-ProjectAssignee: Cross-Project issues <cross-project.inbox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: akurtakov, daniel_megert, frederic.gurr, nboldt
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Wayne Beaton CLA 2018-05-02 12:22:22 EDT 
We need to do some marketting around the change in cadence. A rolling release will have an impact on our user, adopter, and developer communities. It would be helpful if you can help us define that impact.

I'd like to develop a general sense of the impact so that I can start the conversation with the marketting team. I don't need a lot of detail.

Short answers only for now. Pointers to more information will be appreciated, but are not necessary at this point. Once we have a good starting point, we'll dig in to assemble more information.
Comment 1 Nick Boldt CLA 2018-07-04 13:38:16 EDT 
Some marketing ideas...

"Eclipse 4.x: now releasing 4x faster!"

"Eclipse 4.x: now 4 updates a year!"

"The Eclipse Release Train: unlike Bombardier [1], we now fix bugs every quarter!"

"The Eclipse Quarterly Release Train: fixes, features, and better service than the TTC"

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/07/03/most-new-ttc-streetcars-to-be-shipped-to-quebec-to-fix-welding-defect-bombardier-says.html

:D

On a related note, looks like https://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Simultaneous_Release_Requirements#State_intent_early_.28M4.29 will need to be update since there's no longer an M4 milestone.
Comment 2 Frederic Gurr CLA 2020-01-29 06:34:32 EST 
The new SimRel release cadence is in effect. Most communities seem to have adapted to or learned to live with it.