Outline release roadmap

[mjkanji]

Is the "official" policy of this project that it should be installed via GitHub and not PyPI? The last release on GitHub was about 10 months ago (and the corresponding GitHub release about 9 months ago).

Since then, various features (like a Prolific provider) have been added and bugs fixed, but a new release hasn't been made.

Are there any plans to do releases in the future? Having clearly denoted milestones for significant/stable releases (based on the maintainers' opinions) would be useful for users of the project, as one may not necessarily want to always install from the main branch, which may break from time to time.

[JackUrb]

Hi @mjkanji, this is a good question. I had intend to do releases when hit certain feature functionality in our milestone roadmap, but priorities have changed so quickly it's hard to do so.

I was erring on the side of PyPI releases occurring only when we have major bugfixes or stable and tested additions. Neither has occurred in full this year yet, as we've been developing new functionality (like prolific) and haven't gotten to test it out internally enough to call it stable.

[meta-paul]

Hi @mjkanji this is a great suggestion. Given modest size of our team, it may be hard to conceive release schedule well ahead of time. And sometimes some features get a boost based on synergies with our current work needs. We hope to maintain an "undated" roadmap at some point in the future.