TODO list for the next version

[FilipSLO]

Hi, I search unsuccessfully if there is such a list.

So my question is: what's the release policy or plan?

[andrewleech]

They're being tracked in milestones, see https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues?q=milestone%3Arelease-1.21.0

[Josverl]

Pretty sure there's more than these fixes in 1.20.1, but glad there is some visibility.

I'd love projects to be used to understand were I could help, and what to is postponed to a next release ..
But there I do understand that there is effort, and some Grey noise associated with that as well

[andrewleech]

Oh yes there's always a lot more included / merged into a release, I believe the milestones are being used to track "highlight" or blocking features that are treated as required before a release can be cut.

I'd never heard of Github Projects I'm not sure why that was done as a standalone feature separate to milestones, but sure it's another way to try to plan and track tasks. I suppose it's got a lot more visibility than milestones (it took me a while to find the milestone and I knew what I was looking for) so it might be worth looking at if a basic usage can be as minimal overhead as milestones.

The reality is, yeah, this level of project management very quickly becomes a full time job... and personally I want the current core micropython team to still have time to do coding!