Release Partners 1/12/2022

[joshblack]

This week, we're talking about our first release candidate along with our plans for migration and early adoption.

Agenda

• Release Candidate 0
• Migration
• Adoption
• Q&A

Release Candidate 0

Our Release Candidate is scheduled to be released on 1/27/2022. This release will finalize all additions that we're making to v11, barring any significant gaps that are identified during early adoption.

After this phase, we'll be focusing on bug fixes, documentation, migration, and adoption.

Migration

Our migration strategy focuses on our v11 Migration Guide. This page will be the landing point for all things related to v11. It will include guides for designers and developers to understand how to update their project to v11.

For developers, we will also be offering a CLI tool, @carbon/upgrade, that will allow a developer to choose an appropriate migration path and apply codemods to their project. For use-cases that these codemods do not cover, we will have package-specific migration material available on GitHub.

Adoption

In order to test out our migration flow and identify gaps in our implementation, we would love to find teams who have the capacity to work with us to adopt (or try out adopting) v11 before GA.

In this first wave, we'd love to have representation from either framework, PAL, or product teams. If you're interested in helping, please reach out!

[joshblack]

Feedback

• We want to know how we are impacting consumers
  • Do we need to provide two releases? One with and one without v11
• Cloud PAL is taking the approach of bundling it along with a major release
  • Work with early adopters that they have to learn what's working, what's not working
  • Would this also resonate with other PALs?
• The biggest problem we're noticing for migration is not the updating and testing product but maintaining the tests

Next steps

• Figure out proposals for how to move forward
• Now is the best time for working closely on what is changing