I vote for November 18 On 3 Nov 2015 18:36, "Steve Ebersole" <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Keeping up with the 4 week timebox for 5.0 bugfix releases unfortunately > puts them on bad days with the upcoming holidays. > > 5.0.4 would hit Nov 25th which is the day before Thanksgiving here in the > US > 5.0.5 would hit Dec 23rd, 2 days before Christmas > > So I propose pushing 5.0.4 forward or back one week (Nov 18 or Dec 2nd), > and having 5.0.5 4 weeks after that. Votes? Preferences? Silence means I > pick... > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev

That would still put 5.0.5 in the middle of winter break. Probably we should schedule that for a 3 week timebox too. So: 5.0.4 -> November 18th 5.0.5 -> December 9th 5.0.6 -> January 6th (back to normal 4 week timebox) > I generally prefer shorter cycles I agree, to a point. But I need to balance that with actual improvement/feature development as well. 4 weeks has been a great sweet spot for me.