More Releases

[Nerixyz]

Chatterino releases often take long. Let's try to get the software to more users sooner.

A bit of history, starting with 2.3.0 since that's the first release on GitHub:

• (2.3.0) -[ 21d]-> 2.3.1 -[ 4d]-> 2.3.2 -[ 56d]-> 2.3.3 -[ 22d]-> 2.3.4 -[247d]-> 2.3.5
• (2.3.5) -[233d]-> 2.4.0 -[ 83d]-> 2.4.1 -[ 15d]-> 2.4.2 -[ 60d]-> 2.4.3 -[ 7d]-> 2.4.4 -[105d]-> 2.4.5 -[ 35d]-> 2.4.6
• (2.4.6) -[204d]-> 2.5.0 -[ 7d]-> 2.5.1 -[236d (+)]-> 2.5.2

As you can see, releases are quite inconsistent, but most are about 60–200 days apart. This is just an observation. I'm not saying we must have a fixed schedule.

Why release sooner?

If you look at the commit history, you can see a steady stream of PRs - there is code being added/updated. By releasing sooner, we can get better feedback on these changes. There's nightly, but that still requires a manual download for most^{[citation needed]} users.

What's a good schedule?

Assuming the PRs stay consistent, a release every 60–80 days seems like a good target, but that's not really the point of this discussion.

Even more releases

We have a beta channel, but that's only used for 1–2 weeks before a release. Could we have a bi-weekly channel? This would be similar to nightly, except that it has less frequent updates. It should also be auto-updated similar to the beta channel. Maybe a release every other Thursday?