Since the release of Angular 12, the version 12 has been downloaded nearly 200k times. And ng-zorro-antd has been downloaded nearly 36k times since then.
The latest version of ng-zorro-antd (11.4.2) has issues with the active release of Angular (12.0.0-12.0.5) for more than a month.
Ng-zorro-antd should catch up to newer versions of Angular quicker than it does now. Otherwise this leads to couple of big issues:
Problem 1:
Users of ng-zorro-antd cannot upgrade Angular to the latest version. They have to schedule testing Angular upgrades for later on, accumulating technical debt.
Problem 2:
New users of Angular who try to use ng-zorro-antd will face issues till there is a compatible version. They will start building their projects without ng-zorro-antd, which means no new users for 1-2 months till ng-zorro-antd has a compatible version.
What does the proposed API look like?
Angular releases major version every 6 months, the 'next' version is released 3-4 months before the final version.
Ng-zorro could have quicker catch-up time, if it matches development with Angular's next versions.
Maybe there could be a 'next' branch in ng-zorro-antd project so that issues with the newer Angular version can be caught and fixed sooner.
This will also have a lesser wait time, and pressure on developers as compared to now.
wzhudev
commented
3 years ago
What problem does this feature solve?
Since the release of Angular 12, the version 12 has been downloaded nearly 200k times. And ng-zorro-antd has been downloaded nearly 36k times since then.
The latest version of ng-zorro-antd (11.4.2) has issues with the active release of Angular (12.0.0-12.0.5) for more than a month.
Ng-zorro-antd should catch up to newer versions of Angular quicker than it does now. Otherwise this leads to couple of big issues:
Problem 1:
Users of ng-zorro-antd cannot upgrade Angular to the latest version. They have to schedule testing Angular upgrades for later on, accumulating technical debt.
Problem 2:
New users of Angular who try to use ng-zorro-antd will face issues till there is a compatible version. They will start building their projects without ng-zorro-antd, which means no new users for 1-2 months till ng-zorro-antd has a compatible version.
What does the proposed API look like?
Angular releases major version every 6 months, the 'next' version is released 3-4 months before the final version.
Ng-zorro could have quicker catch-up time, if it matches development with Angular's next versions.
Maybe there could be a 'next' branch in ng-zorro-antd project so that issues with the newer Angular version can be caught and fixed sooner.
This will also have a lesser wait time, and pressure on developers as compared to now.